New Materialisms: Life, Science, and Politics

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course critically examines “new materialism,” a major recent intellectual trend at the intersections of feminism, science studies, political theory, and philosophy. It situates the movement in the context of its theoretical precursors but is primarily devoted to reading in their entirety major works by some of the most prominent representatives of new materialism today. The topics of these works may range from vitalism, quantum entanglement, and endosymbiosis to queerness, race, affect, disability, and Indigenous conceptions of material agency. CROSSLISTED: CTMP 4203.03 EXCLUSIONS: CTMP 3411.03 and HSTC 3615.03 for the 2022/23 academic year only; CTMP4411.03 and HSTC 3615.03 for the 2020/21 academic year only FORMATS: Seminar