Antisocial Time, Antisocial Media

This course is dedicated to the various ways in which the facilitation of the “social”—social networks, social media, social movements—have complicated, challenged, and appropriated various modes of temporality.

How is the antisocial a form of untimeliness—a being and becoming out of step with linear, normative, or “straight” time of history and social development? How are alternative timelines produced through modes of intimacy, representation, and kinship not traditionally thought as part of the fabric of the social? How are notions of futurity, optimism, pessimism, nostalgia, and heterotopia troubled or enabled by non-teleological thinking? In this course, students engage with these questions by drawing on interventions in psychoanalytic and philosophical discourses, especially theories of race, space, and affect, in order to problematize notions of relationality and temporality we take for granted.