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WiSe 15/16: MÜ-Constructing Difference: Literary and Cultural Histories: Reading Affect

Jennifer Wawrzinek

Kommentar

Since the last decade of the twentieth century, scholars have begun to examine the various ways in which political, economic and cultural transformations have been changing the realm of the social in terms of affect, that is, in terms of visceral forces that exist beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing but that can nevertheless drive us towards movement, thought, and constantly changing forms of relation. Over the course of the semester students will examine a range of theories from scholars working in the field of affect studies in order to think about the ways in which shifting from the privileging of the organic body to an exploration of nonorganic life; from the presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed systems to an engagement of open systems; and from criticism based on the subject as the central organising point of consciousness and knowing to one that engages with fields of information as process, all compel us to reconsider the ways in which we understand being and knowledge specifically as something distinctly human. Students will be asked to examine these questions in relation to the interrogation and disruption of the human in concert with work undertaken in the accompanying course MA-T 17398 "Transhuman Modernities".
NB: This course is offered in conjunction with MA-T 17398 "Transhuman Modernities". Students must enrol in both components of the module in order to participate in either course.
Set Texts:

Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Fanny Burney, Evelina
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

NB: Course readings will be made available on Blackboard prior to the beginning of semester Schließen

16 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00 16 Termine

Mo, 12.10.2015 10:00 - 12:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Wawrzinek