Course Description


MS 9208 (Fall 2021)   Social Theory in the Age of Austerity

Instructor: M. Stahl

Course Description
The financial crisis of 2008 exemplifies, reveals, intensifies existing fault-lines in our societies and discourses, perhaps generating new ones. The aim of the course is to develop facility with analytical tools of social theory that enable us to follow these lines across social, subjective, cultural, regional, and other realms, and to learn how to identify and become handy with such tools as we encounter them in our research and as they arise in our fields. “Social theory” is a broad, inclusive category—not to be confused with
sociological theory—and it is often retrospectively used to identify ideas that may have originally been contributed as philosophy, political economy, political or cultural theory, and so on.

Course Syllabi for MS 9208 (Fall 2021)
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This course starts from the position that economy, policy, and subjectivity are mutually constitutive and indissociable. We will explore ways to address the following questions,in our research and in our thinking:
• What is neoliberalism? From where and when do the principles we identify with this neologism come?
• How do political and economic forces create human (and non-human) subjects?
• What is the relationship between governance, economics, and subjectivity in the 21st century?
• What roles do media play in creating and sustaining the debtor/creditor relationship, as well as racialized, gendered, and other relations of domination?




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