Subject Area: Environmental Humanities<br/><br/>This course explores the complex nexus of influences encompassing not only technology but also political economy, philosophy, literature, and popular culture that fused to make mass consumption what it is today. It looks, in particular, at the emergence of contemporary notions of domestic comfort and examines the cultural contemporary pervasiveness of shopping. The course shows that rather than reflecting given human predispositions contemporary consumption was invented and is constituted today through technology, broader material infrastructure, everyday practices and deeply entrenched cultural and broader intellectual norms. The course... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 24 units of credit in either the Environmental Studies stream or the History and Philosophy of Science stream or 72 uoc overall
