IM140 Interpassivity & the Prosthesis of Experience in Contemporary Fiction, Art & Theory

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2015
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Louis Armand, Ph.D. (přednášející), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
každé sudé pondělí 16:40–19:55 N21
Předpoklady
preparatory reading is not essential
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 150 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/150, pouze zareg.: 0/150, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/150
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 9 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This seminar will discuss the “technologisation” of experience through the work of various writers, artists, architects, photographers, film makers, philosophers and theorists, including William Gibson, Stelarc, Alan Sondheim, Slavoj Žižek, Nam June Paik, Donna Haraway, Ridley Scott… examining both contemporary manifestations and historical antecedents, from Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon” and Charles Babbage’s “Analytic Engine,” via the time-motion studies of the Gilbreths, to the birth of the modern computer, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Metody hodnocení
terms of the assessment: a research paper (essay) of 2,500-3,000 wds on the topic of interpassivity or technologically 'mediated' experience
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
SUGGESTED READING:
  • Louis Armand, Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Prague: Charles University/Litteraria Pragensia, 2007. 330pp. ISBN 80-7308-168-3.
  • Louis Armand, Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Prague: Charles University/Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. 250pp. ISBN 80-7308-138-5.
  • Louis Armand, ed. Mind Factory. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005. 340pp. ISBN 80-7308-104-0. *Contributors to this volume include Slavoj Žižek, Simon Critchley, Tom McCarthy, Zoe Beloff, McKenzie Wark, Jane Lewty, Ben Goertzel, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Darren Tofts, Donald Theall, Ivan Havel. Louis Armand & Arthur Bradley, eds. Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, November 2006. 375pp. ISBN 80-7308-125-3. This collection of writings explores the theory and praxis of technicity in contemporary thought. *Contributors to this volume include Bernard Stiegler, J. Hillis Miller, Mark Amerika, Niall Lucy, Belinda Barnett, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Geert Lovink, Hartmut Winkler, Donald F. Theall. Laurent Milesi, Christopher Johnson, Michael Greaney. Louis Armand, Jane Lewty & Andrew Mitchel, eds. Pornotopias: Image, Desire, Apocalypse. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2008. 272pp. ISBN 978-80-7308-170-6. *Contributors to this volume include Georges Bataille, Thierry Tillier, Bonita Rhoads & Vadim Erent, Benjamin Bratton, Jena Jolissaint, Karmen MacKendrick, Florian Kramer & Stewart Home, Darren Tofts, Stuart Kendall, Johannes Birringer, Lara Portella, Ian Haig, Malwina Zaremba.
  • Louis Armand with Pavel Černovský, eds. Language Systems: After Prague Structuralism. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007. 150pp. ISBN 978-80-7308-171-3. *Contributors to this volume include Arthur Bradley, Christina Ljungberg, Benjamin H. Bratton, Laurent Milesi, Niall Lucy, Stephen Dougherty, Kevin Nolan.
  • FURTHER READING:
  • Marshal McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962) Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realisation of the Living (Boston: Kluwer, 1980).
  • Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I in Psychoanalytic Experience,” Écrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridon (New York: Norton, 1977).
  • Jacques Lacan, “A Materialist Definition of the Phenomenon of Consciousness,” The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955, trans. S. Tomaselli (London: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  • Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra,” Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983 [1981]).
  • Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems, ed. John Johnston (Amsterdam: OPA, 1997)
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Einstein and the Crisis of Reason,” Signs, trans. Richard C. McCleary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
  • Gregory Bateson, “Cybernetic Explanation,” Steps to an Ecology of Mind (St Albins: Paladin, 1973).
  • Jacques Derrida, “Freud and the Scene of Writing,” Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (London: Routledge, 1978).
  • Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989).
  • Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology,” Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964), ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 1993). Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly 176 (July 1945). Tim Berners-Lee, “Information Management: A Proposal,” CERN (Centre Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), March 1989. Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind LIX.236 (1950).
  • Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1995).
  • José Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1969).
  • Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: The Geometry of Thinking (New York: Macmillan, 1975).
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1968).
  • Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana, 1995).
  • Yuri M. Lotman, Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, trans. Ann Shukman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
  • Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi, A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter becomes Imagination (New York: Basic Books, 2000). Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologising of the Word (London: Routledge, 1982).
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