HSTCMP 206 A: Violence and Contemporary Thought

Summer 2025 Full-term
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Meeting:
to be arranged / * *
SLN:
11603
Section Type:
Seminar
Joint Sections:
CHID 206 A , JEW ST 206 A
THIS COURSE WON'T BE AVAILABLE
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Philosophy & the Aesthetics of Speculative Violence

 

Instructor

  • Dr. Georgia M. Roberts                  

  • email: gmr2@uw.edu

Course Description

This course will consider how modern philosophy and aesthetic theory have shaped popular understandings of the relationship between society, identity, and violence in the future. We will read texts by Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Amartya Sen and others. We will also examine speculative violence related to the technological future and watch films, including Minority Report (2002).

 

 

The class is fully online and asynchronous. All readings and films will be available on Canvas, and assignments will alternate between quizzes and discussions, with a final creative/research assignment. Students will also have the option to sign up for Zoom sessions for informal discussion. 

 

Catalog Description:
Modern and contemporary ideas about violence and their emergence as intellectual responses to historical events. Topics may include histories of physical violence, such as slavery, colonialism, or the Holocaust, as well as structural forms of violence. Offered: jointly with CHID 206/JEW ST 206; AS.
GE Requirements Met:
Diversity (DIV)
Social Sciences (SSc)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
May 9, 2025 - 5:28 am