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Instructors: Dr. Heiko Schmid
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Communication & Cultural Management
Displayed in timetable as:
Cultural studies B
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
5,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
The (media) technologies that encircle us today in planetwide layers do not only have a wide-ranging history, they are also characterized by transformative potentials. In the seminar we will turn to historical, as well as to theoretical and practical appropriations of (media) technologies, with a special focus on their current hybridisation, respectively their structural embedding in our daily routines. By using examples, such as the (magical) history of cinema, the emergence of the comic genre respectively of image animation, the history of cybernetics and AI research up to the so-called Internet of Things and latest developments of human-machine interfaces, the students will be guided to develop a cultural science perspective on technology developments. They will be trained to contextualize those technology developments in a wider historico-cultural framework.
The seminar "Introduction to issues in cultural studies" so aims to address both - historical reference systems and relevant systematic approaches to currently virulent technocultural phenomena.
Educational objective:
The seminar is an introduction to cultural research, reading and writing.
Further information about the exams:
Active participation in the seminar, short presentation, housework (7 pages in english or german)
Mandatory literature:
Branden Hookway: Interface, Cambridge, London 2014.
James Bridle: New Dark Age: technology, knowledge and the end of the future, London, New York 2018.
Luciana Parisi: Contagious Architecture: computation, aesthetic, and space, Cambridge, London 2013.
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