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VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER (5/5/09)

Today's presentations will be in computer lab B-35 in the basement of WT Young Library. You MUST come to the lab for the entire exam period (1-3pm). Please review the syllabus regarding the presentation requirements. Don't forget your presentation scripts!!!

 

 

Here's the SLURL for UK Island. Clicking this link should bring up a webpage with the teleport button to go to UK Island if you are logged in to Second Life at the time.

 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20KY/140/159/26

 

 

 

PS 545 American Political Thought explores contemporary American political thought, its formation and the ways in which it is involved in major problems of culture, political economy, ideology, community and identity. We will explore contemporary issues of capitalism, such as the intellectual history and conflict surrounding intellectual property and copyright; consumer culture and the schizophrenia of modern capitalist life; sexual taboos and the construction of subaltern communities; and the problematics of constructing virtual communities and publics. We will be engaging these questions through a variety of methods. Pedagogically, we will be using deep reading and discussion in class to explore the readings, and using digital ethnographic methods in Second Life to explore how these concepts play out in an artificial digital environment that some political theorists consider the idealized tabula rasa of American political yearnings. During the semester we will learn to explore these major issues within contemporary American political thought as political theorists do and as a community of “metanauts.”

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