対照言語文化分析II

The final class offered by the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher was titled “Postcapitalist Desire.” Although never completed, the class engaged with the question of whether something qualitatively different to capitalism was imaginable. This course, as signaled by its name, will attempt to work off the same question but from two distinct vectors: we will spend much of the semester first thinking about the kinds of desire that capitalism. Near the end of the semester, the course will turn to what a desire for something of a different order—a postcapitalist desire—might look like and whether it can even be thought from within a system that inhibits its imagining. By the end of the course, students will gain familiarity with a range of recent critical thought, be able to articulate how forces of alienation condition subjects to actively identify with the systems in which they find themselves, and use postcapitalism as a heuristic for imagining alternative socio-economic futures rather than a simple dismissal of the present.