There are no special requirements to take this course

Access to knowledge of the problems and debates about subjectivity and identity in culture and contemporary thought. - Critical and analytical reading of classical texts of philosophy and theory of culture relevant to the question of subjectivity. - Ability to find a philosophical content in literary and cultural productions. - Ability in writing and argumentation about abstract topics, relating both to contemporary culture to that thought. - Acquaintance with the relevant literature on the subject. - Ability to write academic texts related to the subject.

The idea or notion of the "subject" has been central to contemporary philosophical discussions and encompass problems and areas that refer to personal and collective identity, to subjectivity o subjectivities in personal and interpersonal understandings and relational processes. It refers to the individual moment of these relational processes and to the constitution of social spaces and institutions. This course has been developing this approach in the course of the 3 last years a)by exploring a relational idea of the subject, b) underscoring its performative character (Butler), c) centering this performative relationality in specific contexts of negativity and harm and d) focusing on how these proceses appear in the corporal space of the skin and touch, and e) analyzing the construction of subjectivity in negative experiences of harm, such as torture, rape and dispossession. The contents and discussions are not repeated from year to year, but follow the lines of a research program. In 2026 this course will be linked with Tecnica y Cultura, imparted by Fernando Broncano linking the develpments of the previous years with the societal and cultural building of the human world and will focus on the processes within which human bodies are conformed and destroyed. Thus, we intend to explore how contemporary philosophy (Phenomenology, Deconstruction and Critical Theory) analyses the subject's corporality or the subjectivity of/in the person's embodiment in such negative experiences in their diachronic relation of resolution, when these are possible and enacted. Evaluation: Students are required to do an oral presentation in the discussion of texts. The course will develop with a lecture by the instructor and a seminar session with the discussion of previously assigned texts in which the required presentation by the students will take place.

For each session there will be a topic and a some readings (see program), which the students should have red previously (except the first day). The texts will be presented in class, either by the teacher, or by students who voluteer to present. There follows a group discussion.