Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2061: Order out of Chaos: Radical Democracy in Theory

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Introduction: Time, Posthumanism, and Radical Democracy.
Nietzche: Morality, truth, guilt and debt
Foucault: Biopower and resistance
Deleuze and Guattari: the Rhizome
Ahmed and he politics of Affect
Phenomenologies of time: Bergson
Connolly and Neuropolitics: Affect and perception
Kaufman: emergence and complexity
DeLanda and Latour: From biology to socio-politics
Jane Bennett and Vibrant Matter: Can a radical democracy include the environment.
Connolly: Radical democracy and a complex theory of the environment.
Tutorials and essay support

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity	22	11 x weekly 2 hour Seminars
Guided Independent Study	30	A variety of independent study activities directed by your module leader to include: seminar preparation;
Guided Independent Study	30	reading set texts;
Guided Independent Study	15	reading secondary material;
Guided Independent Study	53	additional preparation for assignments

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).