Course: Social Sciences as a Projection Screen

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Course title Social Sciences as a Projection Screen
Course code KAAV/DXSSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Gogola Jan, prof. doc. Mgr.MgA
Course content
Society as film and film as society. Thinking as a cinema-social hybrid. Basic topics: - Film as an audiovisual essay - Social sciences as written images - The potential of the expression of Gilles Deleuze's pop philosophy - "High" and "low" as categories that are interdependent and intertwined - Finding context through otherness: anti-context as an opportunity to make the invisible visible - Economics of prestige: circulation of cultural values - Object-oriented ontology, postmodernism, poststructuralism, rhizome, network thinking

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecturing, Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
  • Participation in classes - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Prerequisites not specified
Prerequisites not specified
Skills
Prerequisites not specified
Prerequisites not specified
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Perception of cinematography as an inseparable part of social and social science activities.
Perception of cinematography as an inseparable part of social and social science activities.
- the medium as message (Marshall McLuhan)
- the medium as message (Marshall McLuhan)
- the language of new media (Lev Manovich)
- the language of new media (Lev Manovich)
- new film history (Thomas Elsaesser, Petr Szczepanik)
- new film history (Thomas Elsaesser, Petr Szczepanik)
- media archaeology (Friedrich A. Kittler, Jussi Parikka)
- media archaeology (Friedrich A. Kittler, Jussi Parikka)
- object-oriented ontology (Timothy Morton, Lukáš Likavčan)
- object-oriented ontology (Timothy Morton, Lukáš Likavčan)
Skills
Students are able to use terms and theories appropriately:
Students are able to use terms and theories appropriately:
- hybridisation of media
- hybridisation of media
- computer interface awareness
- computer interface awareness
- non-linear history of cinema
- non-linear history of cinema
- how media are becoming new
- how media are becoming new
- the imagination of the non-human
- the imagination of the non-human
teaching methods
Knowledge
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Lecturing
Lecturing
assessment methods
Analysis of the student's performance
Conversation
Conversation
Analysis of the student's performance
Recommended literature
  • DELEUZE, Gilles; GUATTARI, Felix. A Thousand Plateus.
  • ENGLISH, James F. The Economy of Prestige.
  • HAYDEN, White. The Question of Narrative Contemporary Historical Theory. History and Theory 1985/1.
  • KLINGER, Barbara. Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies, Screen 38, 1997/2.
  • MANOVICH, Lev. The Language of New Media.
  • MCLUHAN, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
  • TURNER, Victor. Frame, Flow adn Reflection: Ritual and Drama as Public Liminality, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1979/4.


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