Wilf – Phaticity as a technical mystique

• Students attending class will be expected to read the set of articles or book chapters assigned each week (more details on are provided in the course schedule for attending students, below).
• Week: Introduction-Late Capitalism Semiotic Ideologies and Linguistic Materialities
• Hochschild A. 1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling . Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press pp. 3-23

Argomenti del programma: This course will engage the role of language—both as a symbolic code and as a material tool—in the spreading of late/neoliberal capitalism. While most analyses of the world’s current order tend to focus on political and economic aspects, this course explores how certain ways of speaking and using language may produce capitalist forms of reasoning and practical conduct.

• Students attending class will be expected to read the set of articles or book chapters assigned each week (more details on are provided in the course schedule for attending students, below).
• Week: Introduction-Late Capitalism Semiotic Ideologies and Linguistic Materialities
• Hochschild A. 1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling . Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press pp. 3-23

Argomenti del programma: This course will engage the role of language—both as a symbolic code and as a material tool—in the spreading of late/neoliberal capitalism. While most analyses of the world’s current order tend to focus on political and economic aspects, this course explores how certain ways of speaking and using language may produce capitalist forms of reasoning and practical conduct.

• Students attending class will be expected to read the set of articles or book chapters assigned each week (more details on are provided in the course schedule for attending students, below).
• Week: Introduction-Late Capitalism Semiotic Ideologies and Linguistic Materialities
• Hochschild A. 1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling . Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press pp. 3-23

Argomenti del programma: This course will engage the role of language—both as a symbolic code and as a material tool—in the spreading of late/neoliberal capitalism. While most analyses of the world’s current order tend to focus on political and economic aspects, this course explores how certain ways of speaking and using language may produce capitalist forms of reasoning and practical conduct.