IM143 Media, Architecture and Space

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
dr. Louis Armand (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 16:40–19:55 N21
Prerequisites
preparatory reading is not essential
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This seminar will focus on the transformation of the relationship between art, technology and futurity through the reshaping of human consciousness in the post-industrial age. From space architecture and the architechtonics of “time” to the virtual timespace architectures of “technologically mediated” consciousness, what Blake called the “human abstract’ has undergone radical evolutions in its status as agency, subject, organism, construct, voyager & interpassive receptor. Orientated towards a future horizon (technological transcendence or extinction event), the “human” describes a dialectical image in which – in dreams but also in the momentum of a global corporate juggernaut – it “experiences” its own negation, no longer, as Benjamin suggested, an aesthetic experience of the highest order, but as its necessary condition. Technology, in its broadest ramification, thus represents both the necessity and impossibility of a “living on” – from individual, to species, to general ecology – beyond what Buckminster Fuller famously evoked as the mission of “Spaceship Earth.”
Literature
  • Jean Baudrillard, Utopia Deferred (New York: Semiotexte, 2006)
  • Katherine N. Hayles, How we became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature & Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
  • Arthur Kroker, The Will to Technology & the Culture of Nihilism (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2004)
  • Stanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2002)
  • Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Selected Writings 1987-2007 (London: Urbanomic, 2011)
  • Roy Ascott, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
  • Václav Janoščík, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling (eds.), Reinventing Horizons (Prague: Tranzit Display, 2016) http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/
  • Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (New York: FSG, 2002)
  • Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs & Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991)
  • McKenzie Wark, Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994)
  • Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia (New York: Viking, 1977)
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
terms of the assessment: a research paper (essay) of 2,500-3,000 wds on the topic of the lecture
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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