PS 579

Fall 2018 All Classes

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Topics in Pol Theory

Credit: 4 hours.

Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected topics of political theory.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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PS 579 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70129	Lecture-Discussion	A1	1:00PM -3:20PM	W	429 David Kinley Hall	Frost, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Biocultural Politics Section Info: TOPIC: Biocultural Politics: Biology, Embodiment, and the Muddled Subject This course examines how recent developments in the life sciences that undermine a clear distinction between biology and culture might reshape the way we think about politics. We will engage research in epigenetics, microbiomics, immunology, neuroscience, and environmental toxicology—according to which the biological body is responsive in its material constitution to its social and material environs—as well as topically-related research in feminist theory, critical race studies, biopolitics, environmental political theory, and science and technology studies. Exploring the productive interplay between life science and humanities research, we will consider how theories of subjectivity, agency, responsibility, and collective action might need to be rearticulated when the subject of politics is conceived as porous and plastic in its materiality or embodiment. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.