16.7 4th year Chris Healy. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week.

• Objectives: Students who complete this subject successfully will:
• understand the major twentieth-century options for theorising cultural politics;
• have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce detailed and innovative studies in
• cultural politics;
• appreciate the interrelations and dynamic of cultural practices and cultural politics as lived, represented and effecting power in contemporary societies.

This subject offers a critical review of 'cultural politics' through a number of specific studies in order to re-think perceived notions of effect, consciousness, subjectivity, ideology, representation and the category 'cultural politics'. Written work of not more than 6,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text. Course reader available from the department Deleuze G and Guattari F Nomadology: The War Machine Semiotext(e). Fiske J Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change Routledge hooks b Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation Routledge Jordan G and Weedon C Cultural Politics Blackwell Lipstiz G Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Minnesota Press Michaels E Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons Allen & Unwin 16.7 4th year Chris Healy. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students completing this subject successfully should:

• understand the major twentieth-century options for theorising cultural politics;
• have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce detailed and innovative studies in cultural politics;
• appreciate the interrelations and dynamic of cultural practices and cultural politics as lived, represented and effecting power in contemporary societies.

A critical review of 'cultural politics' through a number of specific studies in order to re-think perceived notions of effect, consciousness, subjectivity, ideology, representation and the category 'cultural politics'. Written work of not more than 6,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text. Course reader available from the department Deleuze G and Guattari F Nomadology: The War Machine Semiotext(e) Fiske J Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change Routledge hooks b Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation Routledge Jordan G and Weedon C Cultural Politics Blackwell Lipstiz G Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Minnesota Press Michaels E Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons Allen & Unwin