Module POC3023 for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3023: Entangled Life: Radical Democracy in Theory
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Bennett, J. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, (Duke University Press: 2010).
Bergson, H. Creative Evolution, (United States: Random House, 1944).
Bergson, H. Matter and Memory (Mineola: Dover Publications, 2004, [1908]).
Connolly, W. A World of Becoming, (Duke University Press: 2010).
Coole, D., Frost, S., (Eds) 2010. New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency and Politics. (Duke University Press: Durham).
Deleuze, G. Guattari, F. 2004, A Thousand Plateaus, Continuum, London
Deleuze, G. 2006. Bergsonism. (Zone Books: New York).
Friedrich Nietzsche, 2006, On the Genealogy of Morality, (Cambridge University Press)
Prigogine, I. Stengers, I. Order Out of Chaos, Mans New Dialogue With Nature, (Flamingo, Harper Collins, London: 1985).
Smith, J. Jenks, C. Qualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of
Structures in Post Humanist Social Theory (Routledge, Oxon: 2006).
Sheldrake, M. 2021. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds
Sara Ahmed, 2004, The Cultural Politics of Emotion Edinburgh University Press
Tsing, A., 2021. The Mushroom at the End of the World.
DeLanda, M, 2011A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity Continuum
Stuart Kaufman, 1996. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self Organisation and Complexity Oxford University Press
