Cultural and Critical Theory

Catalog description

An introduction to cultural and critical theory through the work of the most prominent theorists of our times. The aim of the class is to make students familiar with concepts and keywords which have become essential in the humanities today, and current in critical debates about culture, literature, art, and cinema. We ask how these different types of textualities relate to history and society, to then define and interrogate the following concepts: culture, ideology, text, structure and superstructure, power, hegemony, postmodernism, aura, spectacle, simulation; sexuality, femininity and female masquerade, queer performativity, cyborgian hybridity, bare life, the anti-oedipus; race and race theory and postcolonial theory.