Examination procedure
Seminar report
Syllabus
Goal of the course is to address themes and approaches that developed in social theory to account for late modern society, understood as the social order emerging as a result of the systems crisis that took place between the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among the topics that will be addressed: post-modernism; artificial intelligence; post-politics; the risk society; new materialisms; science and governance.
The course will be organized in meetings, each one dedicated to a specific topic, building also on discussions of assigned readings.