UNSW Handbook Course - Culture, Power, Modernity

Culture, Power, Modernity - ARTS2871


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Social Sciences and International Studies
	Course Outline: Contact School
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable
	Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

Description

Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology

This course investigates the interrelationships between culture, economy and power within modernity. The course will address some emergent 19th to 21st century cultural features of ‘the modern’: popular culture, consumption ( fashion, shopping, leisure) visual culture (photography, mass mediated images, science imaging) and the rise of aesthetic modernism and avant-gardism. It will also contextualise ‘the modern’ within the longer legacy of the Enlightenment ‘project of modernity’ and thus related issues of democratisation, science and rationality, money and the commodity form, public sphere, politico-cultural hegemony and non-party social movements. Theorists covered will include: Simmel, Veblen, Marx, Gramsci, Weber, Benjamin, Freud, Williams.

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