Master's seminar

Master's seminars

Understanding academic texts in English

Classroom

Contemporary societies are saturated with media and

overtaken by constant processes of mobilization for

conflicts over key public goods. By reconstructing the

verbal and visual rhetoric of these conflicts we can

observe the complexity and dynamics of dense social

processes.

Seminar is offered to those students who want to

research verbal and visual aspects of discussions over

public goods in their master thesis.

During the continuation of the seminar in academic year

2022/2023 the classes will be concentrated on projects

of participants. Topics will include: visual and linguistic

aspects of protests; the body and identity in

contemporary culture and public discuourse; conflicts

and negotitations over moral norms.

Contemporary societies are saturated with media and

overtaken by constant processes of mobilization for

conflicts over key public goods. By reconstructing the

verbal and visual rhetoric of these conflicts we can

observe the complexity and dynamics of dense social

processes.

Seminar is offered to those students who want to

research verbal and visual aspects of discussions over

public goods in their master thesis.

During the continuation of the seminar in academic year

2022/2023 the classes will be concentrated on projects

of participants. Topics will include: visual and linguistic

aspects of protests; the body and identity in

contemporary culture and public discuourse; conflicts

and negotitations over moral norms.

The topics and literature mentioned in the description of

the seminar is a set of examples. The final list of

problems and texts will be agreed with the participants of

the seminar.

only; the actual list of titles discussed during the seminar will

be consulted with participants):

G. Agamben, A. Badiou et al. Démocratie, dans quel état?,

Paris 2009

S. Babones, The New Authoritarianism. Trump, Populism and

the Tyranny of the Experts, Polity 2018

M. Canovan, The People, Wiley 2005.

M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Basingstoke 2009

R. Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor,

Cambridge, London 2011

E. Noam, “Beyond the mogul: From media conglomerates to

portfolio media”, Journalism 2018, Vol. 19 (8)

J. Rancière, Hatred of Democracy, New York-London 2009

R. Salecl, The Tyranny of Choice, London 2011

J. Staniszkis, Antropologia władzy, Warszawa 2009

W. Streeck, How Will Capitalism End?, New York-London 2017

S. Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, New York-London

2009

Active attendance, reading and completing master thesis will

be required.

Two absences per semester are accepted. In case of absences

above this limit additional work will be required.