07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R
Section Information for Spring 2015
This course will interrogate how material practices and spaces have negotiated the relationship between subjects and society in the modern era, focusing on European and U.S. history of the 19th and 20th centuries. By drawing on a range of challenging and influential scholarship from cultural, architectural, urban, art, and design history, we will explore the following questions: How does the body negotiate the relationship between self and society? How have past regulatory practices of the body influenced the design of objects and spaces intended for its maintenance and/or governance? How can we reclaim human agency while acknowledging the limits imposed on the body by social, cultural, and material constructs? The readings for the course will be both historical and theoretical, organized thematically around weekly topics such as: Class and the laboring body; Modernism and sexuality; Colonial spaces and bodies; Architecture and racialized bodies; Science, technology, and cyborgs. The central aim of the course will be to relate the history of material practices to ideas about difference, power, and subjectivity.
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Credits: 1-6
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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