COML 6473

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COML 6473
The Decolonization of the Mind: Foucault, Fanon, Althusser, Deleuze and Guattari

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This seminar will focus on the works of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, all of whom wrote extensively about the colonization and decolonization of the mind.  Our goal will be to better understand how these thinkers articulated political and psychic questions throughout their lives.  How do ideology, discourse, and power constrain and constitute subjects at the same time?  How do particular institutions such as the asylum, the prison, the camp, or the school produce different psychic and political structures?  What can freedom and agency look like in this context?

When Offered Fall.

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6286

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17269 COML 6473   SEM 101

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