Seminário de Especialidade em Cultura Contemporânea e Novas Tecnologias (not translated)
Code
73201107
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
José Bragança de Miranda
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To have a deeper knowledge of the learning outcomes associated with the 2nd cycle in Communication Sciences, especialization in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies
b) To analyse theoretical or empirical objects that cross the disciplinary approaches of Communication Sciences, Contemporary Culture and New Media
c) Be able to do a comprehensive research in contemporary culture and new media, in an integrated perspective.
d) Master interdisciplinary research methodologies.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
General introduction
I: Geophilosophy: Earth as an Event
1.1. Introduction: «1961, the Earth as an event »
1.2. The death of the Earth
1.3. The return of the archaic: Flesh and Earth
1.4. The essence of technique: Translation and devices
1.5. The expansion of the art: from aesthetic art to geo-art
1.6. Cosmopolitics
II: The Geoaesthetics of Walter Benjamin
2.1. Introduction to the Geoaesthetics of Walter Benjamin
2.2. The self and its property
2.3. Trace and aura
2.4. On technique: production, reproduction and transduction
2.5. Instant, actual, and history
2.6. On the common image and the cinematic
2.7. Aesthetics and politics
Conclusion
Bibliography
Gilles Deleuze & F. Guattari: «Geophilosophy» in What is Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 1994.
Giorgio Agamben: The Open and the Animal, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004.
Adrian MacKenzie: Introduction & «Radical contingency and the materializations of technology» in Transductions, Bodies and Machines at Speed, Londres, Continuum, 2002.
Gary Shapiro: «Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics» In Keith Ansell
Pearson (Ed) - A Companion to Nietzsche, Oxford, Blackwell, 2006.
Walter Benjamin, A Modernidade, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2010.
Walter Benjamin, Fragments philosophiques, politiques, critiques, littéraires, édité par Ralph Tiedemann et Hermann Schwepenhäuser, trad. de lall. par Christophe Jouanlanne et Jean-François Poirier, Paris, PUF, 2000, p. 111-113.
Walter Benjamin, The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media, Harvard, 2008.
Teaching method
The methodology is centred in an articulation between the cognitive mapping the problematologic approach, as proposed by Michel Foucault, in such a way that the adequate methods to the research object can be tentatively tried and elaborated, by crossing them with the available disciplinary methodologies:
An interdisciplinary exploring of the fields of contemporary culture and new media;
Seminar work;
An essay about one of the themes of the seminar.
Evaluation method
An essay about one of the themes of the seminar.