TIM_BM_014 COVIDOLOGY

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2020
Rozsah
2/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučováno online.
Vyučující
Luis Armand, PhD. (přednášející)
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (náhr. zkoušející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Čt 19. 11. 9:00–17:40 B2.24, Pá 20. 11. 9:00–17:40 G32
Předpoklady
There are no prerequisites.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 50 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 1/50, pouze zareg.: 0/50, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/50
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 17 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
"Revolution spreads not by contamination, but by *resonance* — a resonance of ideas, exposed as *musical vibrations* which grow so dense that we may no longer wish to turn back…" [Jean-Marie Gleize]
  • This seminar engages with the phenomenon of "covidology" in the social/mediasphere, with a focus on intellectual & cultural radicalism. The overlap between catastrophe discourse, quasi-revolutionary/militant activism, & the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique occasion for examining previously established truisms in the relation of "theory" to "praxis" & the role of "interactive media" in constituting the global "real." What has occurred since BAudrillard's proclamation at the beginning of the 1990s that "the Gulf War did not take place" (i.e. other than as a media event)? In the present environment of conspiranoia & fake news, what is the relationship between the "actual" viral pandemic of COVID-19 & the reality-shaping discourses & memology of coronachan? Is COVID=19 an evolutionary technology? Is COVID=19 an instrument of historical discontinuity or of the consolidation of the parmaco=surveillance world order? And is there a critical theory adequate to the task of grasping its implications beyond the reflexology of instant opinionising?
  • KEYWORDS
  • phenomenon, procurement, logistics, isolation, contagion, stimulus, riot, biopolitics, ecology, capitalist realism, immunology, vaccine, asymptomatic, pharma, geopolitics, terraforming, automatic revolution, biological warfare
    • Literatura
    • Bruno Latour 'This is a global catastrophe that has come from within' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/bruno-latour-coronavirus-gaia-hypothesis-climate-crisis
    • Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, "Diary of the Psycho-Deflation": https://www.versobooks.com/…/4600-bifo-diary-of-the-psycho-…
    • Interior Ministry, "Covidology: The Day after the one Before": https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2020/…/30/covidology
    • series of articles: https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/category/counter-propaganda/
    • Nathalie Olah, "Viral terminology, Technology, and Capitalism": https://www.versobooks.com/…/4662-viral-terminology-technol…
    • Giorgio Agamben, "Requiem for the Students": https://medium.com/@ddean3000/requiem-for-the-students-giorgio-agamben-866670c11642
    • Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, "Principles of Coronademonology": https://www.urbanomic.com/document/principles-of-coronademonology/
    • Carlo Caduff, "What Went Wrong Corona and the World after the Full Stop": https://www.academia.edu/42829792/What_Went_Wrong_Corona_and_the_World_after_the_Full_Stop
    • Peter Engelmann and Jean-Luc Nancy (interview), "The Dark Side of Progress": http://lived.ink/2020/06/11/the-dark-side-of-progress/
    • Tithi Bhattacharya and Gareth Dale, "Covid Capitalism: General Tendencies, Possible 'Leaps'”: https://spectrejournal.com/covid-capitalism/
    • Léon de Mattis, "Epidemic crisis and crisis of capital": https://non.copyriot.com/epidemic-crisis-and-crisis-of-capital/
    • Fernando Sdrigotti, "Time/Immaterial": https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4686-time-immaterial
    • Philip Mirowski / Politics Theory Other, "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste": https://soundcloud.com/…/85-never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-t…
    • New Left Review's "A Planetary Pandemic" issue: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122
    • Simon Elmer, "Giorgio Agamben and the Bio-Politics of COVID-19": https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2020/04/25/giorgio-agamben-and-the-bio-politics-of-covid-19/
    • M. Foucault, G. Agamben, J.L. Nancy, R. Esposito, S. Benvenuto, D. Dwivedi, S. Mohan, R. Ronchi, M. de Carolis, "Coronavirus and philosophers (European Journal of Psychoanalysis": https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/
    • Jörg Heiser, “Artists in Quarantine: public intellectuals, and the trouble with empty heroics": https://www.art-agenda.com/features/332992/artists-in-quarantine-public-intellectuals-and-the-trouble-with-empty-heroics
    • Interior Minstry, "The Price of a Lungfull of Air": https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/the-price-of-a-lungfull-of-air/
    • Priscilla Wald, "Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narative": https://read.dukeupress.edu/…/ContagiousCultures-Carriers-a…
    • Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher, "Close the tap! COVID-19 and the need for Convivial Conservation": https://www.versobooks.com/…/4679-close-the-tap-covid-19-an…
    • Slavoj Zizek, Pandemic / There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches (London: Verso)
    • Venkatesh Rao, "Pandemic Time: A Distributed Doomsday Clock": https://www.noemamag.com/pandemic-time-a-distributed-doomsday-clock/
    • Paul B. Preciado, "Learning from the Virus": https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/paul-b-preciado-82823
    • Reza Negarestani, "Even though this pandemic will succumb in time, it has created its own stamp upon the human psyche": https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1258149474737758211
    Výukové metody
    lecture, discussion
    Metody hodnocení
    terms of the assessment: a research paper (essay) of 2,500-3,000 wds on the topic of the lecture
    Další komentáře
    Studijní materiály
    Předmět je vyučován jednorázově.
    • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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