Culture, ideology and hegemony: theory and sociology of culture: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas; Interpretation of cultural forms: interpretive theories: Roland Barthes, Marshall Mcluhan, Stuart Hall, Clifford Geertz; Politics of representation: theories and interpretations of otherness, women, colonial subjectivity, alternative others and queer theory, visual and media representation, disability studies; The postmodern turn and virtual culture: theories and debates on postmodernism and cyber culture, theories of J-F Lyotard, Patricia Waugh, Frederic Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Jean Baudrillard, George Landow.
