To know, to judge, to act. The social spontaneity of the body

1-Political Economy of the Body. The Living and Naked Carnality of Exploitation (Marx).

• Value as a bodily abstraction.
• Perpetual bodily dispossession.
• The body as a social relationship.
• Surplus value as bodily alienation.
• The capitalist construction of the body. The factory.

2-Society as a Web of Power for the Subjection of Bodies (Foucault).

• Docile bodies. Power beyond the State
• The body as a narrative of power
• Panopticism, Disciplining and Biopolitics.

3-Techniques and body gloss (Mauss, Birthwishtell, Goffman, Elias)

• Social hierarchies and body movements.
• The grammar of the body.
• Knowing and informing without speaking. The interaction of bodies.
• Civilization made flesh.

 4-Social Order (domination) made Body (Bourdieu).

• Body hexis and mental schemes.
• Class body. Class gesture.
• To carry social order within one's body.
• Embodied race and ethnicity.
• Can the dominated emancipate themselves?

 5-The Social Grammars of the Body. Common Sense (Gramsci)

• Common sense as a shared way of being, acting, imagining, and naming the world
• Moral Order
• logical order
• Instrumental Precepts
• Procedural Precepts
• Intentional precepts.
• Social languages: grammar of speech; body grammar; grammar of mental schemas.
• Hegemonic forms of short and long duration.

6-Why is it so difficult, although not impossible, to change the world?

 

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The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

• Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
• Internet access.
• Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
• Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 120 hours of dedication will be credited.

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.

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