How do the “economies” of affect, emotion, and desire mix with religion, our psychic and material economies and ecologies, and brain cartographies– in particular, with love, health, sex and gender, race and class, fear, violence and peace, semiotic representations and the unconscious? What future world for us, as our small planet suffers through the devastating Covid-19 pandemic? To find some answers, we will explore myths, philosophies, and politics, the crafty aesthetics of commodity fetishism, the emotional capitalism of the Society of the Spectacle and the emotariat, within the global political economies and ecologies of “behavioral futures” and post-truth machine-learning: consumption, climate change and extinction, finance, art markets, technology, social media, and the image–Optimally, we may go beneath our skins to find our mind’s hearth and body in a democratic socioecological “art of living and making (in) common(s)” that I call EcoDomics.Philosophy and Critical Theory (PHCRT) courses focus on developing critical reading and thinking skills, with an emphasis on learning to frame and explore meaningful questions. Students consider multiple perspectives and claims in the process of formulating independent, well-founded opinions.

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