2011_12
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A A 
català 
 
Estudis Culturals en Llengua Anglesa, Textos i Contextos (2009)
 Assignatures
  ESPAIS I LLOCS POSTMODERNS: EL JO I LA CIUTAT
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
Mapping territories. Embodying Space. Traditional Cartesian perceptions of space.
From an aesthetics of Modernism to Postmodernism.
Theorizing space. Michel Foucault. Henri Lefèbvre. Edward Soja.
Gendering and Transgendering Space. Postcolonial and psychoanalytical theories.
Desiring spaces. The distribution of knowledge.
Cities and the imaginary. Closed bodies / Closed cities. Bodies that flow / cities that flow.
Utopian and dystopian spaces. Towards a utopian architecture. Embodying utopia. Elizabeth Grosz. Leonie Sandercock and Cosmopolis.
Dystopian spaces. "Disembodying" space: dystopian cities with no bodies.