Martini Paula, Rodrigo
TR 12:45 PM
Park Hall 136
This course will serve both as an introduction to recent media theories in cultural studies and an in-depth look at the way media technologies have reframed what it means to be human throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Through thinking about media in fiction, drama, film, and art, we will understand our humanity as a medium of thinking.
How does humanity change with the introduction of new media technologies? How do we think of our own humanity in the face of the technological? How do our aesthetic practices reframe the work of media?
This course understands media to mean the series of technological apparatuses that record, store, and reproduce sensible data. We will also investigate the “media-”scapes that encircle each apparatus, such as a the network of practices and discourses surrounding the emergence of cinema, or the popularization of the radio.
To help us navigate the world of media, we will discuss some criticism on:
These strange, scary, and complicated terms will be made clear through the writings of Siegfried Zielinski, Lisa Gittelman, Jacqueline Rose, Laura Mulvey, Friedrich Kittler, Marshall McLuhan, Vilém Flusser, Dominic Pettman, and others.
We will read, watch, and look at prose, drama, and film from the late nineteenth century to the present.