History of Consciousness
HISC 283 Autonomy and Autonomist Politics
What is the meaning of autonomy in the midst of the current socio-ecological crisis? Is autonomist politics possible in the 21st century? The course discusses different dimensions of autonomy–self-determination, self-institution, self-valorization, self-definition—and focuses on the relevance and limits of autonomist politics across different social fields and across a multiplicity of unfolding translocal and transnational struggles. As we de-center, provincialize, and posthumanize autonomism, we examine the meaning of refusal and exodus in a contentious multi-polar geopolitical order and in a manifestly more-than-human world.
Instructor
Dimitris Papadopoulos