| Course Title: Topics in Critical Social Thought: 'Writing Capitalism's Ruins' |
| Start Date: 08/30/2021 End Date: 12/13/2021 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2021 |
| Description: There's a low buzz; we feel nervous. Is this capitalism's end? Have zombies hit the horizon yet? Keep checking. Anthropology narrates collective feeling, gives form to the ambience. But what is late industrialism's ambience? As factory buildings crumble, we wonder whether the tap water's clean. The question of how to write the world is also a question of how to survive and even flourish. Drawing from archaeology, cultural anthropology, ecology, and literary theory, this course is a writing-oriented study of contemporary experiences of infrastructural failure, capitalist collapse, and ruination. One focus is the effects of capitalism on people of color and North American non-English speakers. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Matthew Watson | mcwatson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 08/30/2021 - 12/13/2021 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | CLEV - Cleveland | 001L | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ANTHR-105. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought major | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ANTHR-216WC-01 Writing Capitalism's Ruins |
| CST-249WC-01 Writing Capitalism's Ruins |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 24 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation Author: Federici, Silvia Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1570270597 Publisher: Autonomedia |
Required | 14.96 |
| Title: Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? Author: Wark, McKenzie Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781788735339 Publisher: Verso |
Required | 11.97 |
| Title: The Alchemy of Meth: A Dcomposition Author: Pine, Jason Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781517907716 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press |
Required | 21.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |