Course information |
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Title |
Theories of Culture – A Survey of Critical Theories |
Lecturer |
Dr. Peter Bocsor |
Course code |
thecul_2-1 |
Credit |
4 |
Location |
Auditorium Maximum or Room Kristó |
Time |
Friday 10 a.m. |
Course description |
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Short description |
This series of lectures offers an overview of various conceptualizations of culture from the beginning of the 20th Century up to the present. We examine how culture emerges as a concept in the course of theorizing it from a multiplicity of viewpoints. The approach of semiotics will serve as a basis for discussing means of subjectivity and meaning production within systems of ideologies. It takes us to more recent critical formulations addressing the political and the social. We shall explore the vested interests of feminism, post-colonialism, and anti-consumerism in culture as an issue. |
Schedule |
I Introduction – The Working Hypothesis II Sign & Language III Ideology & The Subject IV Authorship & Authority V Gender & Race VI Media & Politics |
Semester |
Fall 2018 |
Requirements |
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Requirements to get the grade |
Evaluations will be based upon a comprehensive exam.
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Reading list |
Eco: A Theory of Semiotics, Saussure: Course in General Linguistics, Jakobson: Linguistics and Poetics, Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, Žižek: The Sublime Object of Ideology, Holland: Unity Identity Text Self, Barthes: The Death of the Author, From Work to Text, Tong: Introduction: The Varieties of Feminist Thinking, Parry: Postcolonial Studies, McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage. |
Suggested reading list |
Raymond Carver/Gordon Lish: The Bath – A Small Good Thing, Eric Gandini: Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers, Adam Curtis: HyperNormalisation. |