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Lehrende: Henrik Nieratschker; Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
DM.M-MT
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Veranstaltungsname:
DIGITAL MEDIA, NOW
- mapping contemporary conditions
Veranstaltungsbeschreibung:
As processes of digitalisation have progressed into nearly all aspects of contemporary life (also due to, but already before the Covid-19 pandemy), the field of media studies has become an important, if not necessary, tool to understand our personal and common histories, presents and futures on this planet. For us, this includes a critical understanding of the processes, practices and contexts of media art and media design today.
In this class we will read and discuss texts that propose, elaborate on and (re)frame questions around the role of digital media as well as technology and science at large. In the course of this undertaking, we will look at the foundational literature of media studies, current texts (+ podcasts and videos) from a variety of neighbouring theoretical fields and authors, as well as artistic examples. Specific topics will include postcapitalism, technofetishism, afrofuturism and posthumanism in connection to the contemporary conditions, structures and influences of digital media and critical art and design practices.
The course will offer an introduction to theory, which can aid in mapping contemporary conditions, starting discussions and giving impulses for further study of more specific approaches and discourses.
Seminar will be hold in english.
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Literature:
Hito Steyerl – Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?, IN: Journal #49, e-flux 2013
Michel Foucault - The Order of Discourse, 1971
Benjamin Bratton - The Stack, MIT Press, 2015
Timothy Morton - Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People, Verso 2017
Karen Barad – Posthumanist Performativity: Toward An Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter, IN: Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 28, No.3, 2003
McKenzie Wark - Capital is Dead: Is this something worse?, Verso 2019
Nick Srnicek/Alex Williams - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work, Verso, 2015
Joseph Vogl - The Specter of Capital, Stanford Universty Press 2014
Grace Gipson, Creating and Imagining Black Futures through Afrofuturism, IN: #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation, Abigail De Kosnik, Keith P. Feldman (EDS.), 2019, pp. 84-103
Kodwo Eshun - Virtualizing the Breakbeat, IN: More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction, Quartet Books 1998
Steff Aupers, The Revenge of the Machines: On Modernity, Digital Technology ad Animism, IN: Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 30, No. 2, SPECIAL FOCUS: The Internet and Social Change in Asia and Beyond (2002), pp. 199-220
Allison de Fren, Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desire of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots), in: Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, Science Fiction and Sexuality (November 2009), pp. 404-440
Other Media:
Adam Curtis - Hypernormalisation, BBC 2016
Natasha A. Kelly, "The Comet - Afrofuturism 2.0”, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0WabzAuvgo
Iara Lee - Modulations: A Cinema for the Ear, 1998
CP:
6
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