The Intimate

Abstract

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Perhaps few topics have had as complex a treatment in social theory as sexuality. The sublimated engine of civilizations, the last retreat from the iron cage and technological dystopia, the “truth” of the self, the somatization of late capitalist relations, the nexus of race and class domination, the margins of a scholarly center, and the center of a queer margin; sexuality is a protean object of study that runs through theories of the social.