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| Udgave: |
Efterår 2012 Hum |
| ECTS points: |
15 |
| Årsværk: |
15 |
| Institutter: |
Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, afd. for Moderne Kultur |
| Undervisere: |
Roxana Bedrule og Frauke Wiegand |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Humanistiske Fakultet Efterår 2012 Hum |
| Indhold: |
The Other is a wide-ranging concept that underlies many of the ongoing
debates and themes in contemporary humanities and social sciences. In recent
critical thought the Other is articulated along two main strands: as a political effect of
practices of exclusion, and on a more affirmative tone, as a figure of human finitude.
While this course is sensitive to both understandings, it is mainly inspired by the latter
sense, which draws on a line of critique as it was developed in the writings of Levinas
and Derrida, for example. Here "otherness" is constitutive to the process of identity
formation and while it crystalizes in concrete images of non-identity relative to
specific socio-cultural contexts, it is also "the temporal modality in which we
encounter the unknown: it is the very event of our exposure and susceptibility to what
is absolutely surprising" (Derrida, Of Hospitality). Seen in this light, various practices
of looking, as we can find them for example in tourism and surveillance, are
intimately bound to othering and identity formation. Furthermore, different visual
regimes carry different epistemological consequences on identity formation
processes while visual technologies, through their medium-specific features and
beyond them, complicate even more "the temporal modality in which we encounter
the unknown".
Therefore, this course will be address the various practices of looking in
contemporary culture and will include images (photographs, posters, prints,
paintings, videos, films and other visual artifacts) which could help us formulate
questions about how figures of human finitude (the elder, the vulnerable, the
destitute) and political abjection (the exiled, the undocumented, the surveyed)
emerge and proliferate and how they negotiate our own sense of identity and of the
relationships that support it.
The course alternates instructors' lectures with student presentations,
includes class readings of texts and a final written assignment and oral examination |
| Litteratur: |
Jacques Derrida. "The Principle of Hospitality" [An interview with Dominique
Dhombres for Le Monde, December 2, 1997. Translated by Ashley Thompson.
Parallax 11.1 (2005), pp. 6-9.
Martin Jay. “Scopic Regimes of Modernity”, in Hal Foster (ed.), Vision and
Visuality, New York, The New Press, 1988, pp: 3-28.
Jacques Rancière. “The Future of the Image”, in The Future of the Image,
London and New York, Verso, 2007, pp: 1-32.
Silverman, Kaja. Threshold of the Visible World. NY: Routledge, 1996.
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. An Introduction to
Visual Culture, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Bemærkninger: |
A course reader will be available and can be purchased beginning of
September.
The course is listed for MA students in both Modern Culture
and Visual Culture / Art History. Students in Art History and Visual Culture are advised to apply
for a 'guest readership' for this particular course ideally before September 1.
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| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
28/8-2012 |