BODIES, MONEY AND MARKETS
PHI3BMM
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
From the most abstract financial flows to our most intimate desires money and markets permeate all aspects of our lives. But should we limit the powers of money and markets to reduce everything to property and exchange? What are the implications of thinking of our bodies and work as things we own? What is money and why is it so powerful? Are global markets spaces of freedom and creativity or the reverse? Can we imagine futures without the dominance and defining powers of money and markets over bodies and life? We address these and related questions through the work of some influential thinkers in European and feminist theory such as Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Butler, Ahmed, Derrida, Deleuze and Agamben.
School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: George Vassilacopoulos
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
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Capstone subject: Yes
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Prerequisites: 30 credit points from ASSC subjects or by approval of the subject coordinator
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Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
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