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SS-611 Concepts of Materiality

3 Credits

  • SS-611-01

    Tuesday

    9:00 am – 11:50 am

    DeKalb Hall, 308

Drawing on distinct but overlapping art historical and archaeological methodologies, intersecting with philosophy, anthropology, and the history of science, this seminar examines the many ways that objects, things and matter are thought to hold meaning, memory and history. Tracing the evolution of the concept of materialism through time and across various, the course will focus on the idea of the immanent and nonlinear nature of materialisms as well as the ways in which embodied subjectivities can be conceptualized and materialized. This course will hesitate in the space between the formations of these theories, particularly in light of new materialisms and matter itself, never inert or static but always in the process of becoming.