SHUM 4995

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SHUM 4995
Sensory Power, Sensory Subjects

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The course will focus the notions of ''sensory power'' and ''politics of sensation'' through the analysis of contemporary forms of biopolitical governmentality in western democracies.The ethical-aesthetical governmental dispositiv implemented in Italy by Silvio Berlusconi's mass-mediatic populism will be used as a case-study, with specific regard to Berlusconi's sexual politics, as emerged in a sequence of sexual scandals between 2009 and 2011, and to its consequences on the heteronormative redefinition of gender roles. 

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17024 SHUM 4995   SEM 101

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