PS 579

Fall 2020 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 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70129	Online Lecture	B	1:00PM -3:20PM	R	n.a.	Frost, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Biopolitics Section Info: Biopolitics: This course will examine how life has been mobilized, targeted, and transformed by political regimes, governmental agencies, and social, cultural, and economic forces. Thinking through questions of race, gender, sexuality, and nation, we will engage texts by Foucault, Agamben, and Esposito, as well as the work of a range of other thinkers of empire, biotechnology, and subject formation. Our work will also include coming to terms with arguments about negative and affirmative forms of biopolitics. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.