HMS-330B Topics in Literary/Cultural Theory: Postmodernism and Creative Practices

3 Credits

In this class, we will read primarily theoretical writings about Postmodernism and think and write creatively in response to them, considering how they speak to our lives as well as providing resources for our practices as artists, writers, designers. Practices and concepts may include sampling, queering, networks, fractals, emergence and open systems, sustainability, deconstruction, radical plurality, hybridity, irony, kitsch, simulacra, the virtual, and so on. Our focus will be on HOW TO DO THINGS with theory.