The course is concerned with interdisciplinary approaches to the study and critique of culture and society. It provides students with an introduction to theoretical concepts and approaches to the many dimensions of culture. Theoretical approaches that have shaped critical and scholarly discourses of cultural are studied, drawing on disciplines of social sciences and the humanities. Engaging the most ground-breaking and prominent theorists of the present—as diverse as Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Nancy, Žižek and recent Feminist, and Digital theorists—the course explores approaches to a range of issues and problems concerning power, economics, media, art, visual culture, identity and discourse in contemporary, and historical contexts.