AJ26072 Connecting Environments

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 L42
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
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Course objectives
The course will consider approaches to relations between social, cultural and natural environments through consideration of a series of late 20th century perspectives on these areas, namely Manuel Castells, Arran Gare, David Harvey,and Andrew McMurry, as well as relevant aspects of the work of post-war Anglophone poets,specifically T.S. Eliot, Edward Dorn, and J.H. Prynne.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students should have gained a better understanding of the nature and implications of relations between natural, geographical, urban, social and political environments in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and related elements of metaphysics and poetics.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Feb: 19th: Introductory Week 2: Feb 26th:David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity:Part II; T.S.Eliot: Four Quartets: Burnt Norton and East Coker Week 3: March 5th:David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity:Part III: T.S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding Week 4: March 12th:Arran Gare: Ch.1:Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis: What is Postmodernity?: Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society: Ch.1: The Information Technology Revolution; Ch.3 The Network Enterprise. Edward Dorn: The North Atlantic Turbine: A Theory of Truth: The North Atlantic Turbine Week 5: March 19th: M.Castells: Rise of the Network Society: Ch.6&7: The Space of Flows and Timeless Time; Ed Dorn: Oxford: Parts I-V Week 6: March 26th: A. Gare: Ch.2.Post-modernism and Post-structuralism; J.H. Prynne: Kitchen Poems: The Numbers, Diamonds in the Air Week 7:April 2nd: A. Gare; Ch.3.Post-Structuralism, Marxism, and the Environment:J.H.Prynne:Kitchen Poems:Numbers in Time of Trouble: Sketch for a Financial Theory of the Self; A Gold Ring Called Reluctance Week 8:April 9th:Andrew McMurry: Environmental Renaissance Ch.2: Systems Theory, Cybernetics and Self-organization; J.H. Prynne: The White Stones: Airport Poem, The Holy City, The Glacial Question Unsolved; A Note on Metal Week 9:April 16th: READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 10:April 23rd:A.McMurray Ch.3: Emerson's Environments; Postmodern Metaphysics;J.H. Prynne: Brass: Royal Fern, L'Extase de M. Poher, The Ideal Star-Fighter Week 11:April 30th: Castells: The Power of Identity: Chs 1,6:Identity and Meaning in the Network Society; The Crisis of Democracy Identity J.H. Prynne: Wound Response: Treatment in the Field, Cool as a Mountain Stream;Of Movement Towards a Natural Place; Chromatin Week 12:May 7th:G. Deleuze and F. Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus : Rhizome (avaialble on internet)Manuel Castells: Communication Power: Ch.1 Power in the Network Society; Ch.3. Networks of Mind and Power;J.H. Prynne: High Pink on Chrome Week 13:May 14th:A.Gare:Chs.4&5.:Postmodern Metaphysics;Towards a New World Order: J.H. Prynne: The Oval Window
Literature
  • Castells, Manuel: Communication Power Oxford OUP 2013
  • Prynne, JH: Poems Fremantle/Newcastle Bloodaxe 1999
  • Dorn, Edward: The North Atlantic Turbine London Fulcrum 1967
  • T S Eliot: Collected Poems London Faber & Faber 1963
  • CASTELLS, Manuel. The rise of the network society. 2nd ed. Malden: Blackwell. xxix, 594. ISBN 9780631221401. 2000. info
  • CASTELLS, Manuel. The power of identity. 1st pub. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. xv, 461. ISBN 1557868743. 1997. info
  • GARE, Arran E. Postmodernism and the environmental crisis. London: Routledge. vii, 192. ISBN 0415124794. 1995. info
  • HARVEY, David. The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change. Cambridge: Blackwell. ix, 378. ISBN 9780631162940. 1990. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by means of short lecture, small-group full-group discussion.
Assessment methods
Assessment by attendance and oral contribution (40%) plus 7-10 page essay (60%). One copy of the essay should be submitted to my address in the IS and one to the IS vault.
Language of instruction
English
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