Course schedule
Media and Performance Theory 2008-2009 — Course schedule
Feb. 10, 2009
Introduction: “The medium is a message”
- Plato: Excerpt from Phaedrus (The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 1 [387 AD] p. 451-455)
- Derrick de Kerckhove: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/article_greektragedy.htm
- Vilém Flusser: On Writing and on Desks (seperate text)
Feb. 17, 2009
“Extensions of Man”
- Bertolt Brecht: The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
http://home.freeuk.com/lemmaesthetics/brecht1.htm
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Constituents of a Theory of the Media
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000606.html
- Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media (ch. 1 and 2)
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/McLuhan-Understanding_Media-I-1-7.html
- Jean Baudrillard: “In The Most Complete Ambiguity”: Requiem For The Media
http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_1/levin.htm
- Douglas Kellner: Baudrillard: A New McLuhan?
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/kell26.htm
Feb. 24, 2009
“Body as Medium”
- Tomaž Toporišic: Traces of the Performative Turn
http://ttoporisic.googlepages.com/tracesoftheperformativeturn
- Contributions to Roundtable on Liveness
- Erika Fischer-Lichte: Returning the Gaze: Between Cultural Performance and Performance Art
- STELARC website: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/
March 3, 2009
“Perceptive Media”
- Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction
http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/rcrooks/toolbox/common_knowledge/general_communication/benjamin.html
- Régis Debray: What Is Mediology?
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Debray-What_is_Mediology.html
- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulations
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Baudrillard_Simulacra_and_Simulations.html
- Vilém Flusser: The Technical Image (seperate text)
March 10, 2009
“Intelligence Media”
- Vannevar Bush: As We May Think
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml
- Alan M. Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
http://cogprints.org/499/0/turing.html
- J.C.R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
- Friedrich Kittler: The History of Communication Media
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/kittler/comms.html
March 17, 2009
“Answers / Debates”
- David Rodowick: What was Cinema (to be photocopied)
- Bill Nichols: The work of culture in the age of cybernetic systems (to be photocopied)
- Paul Levinson: Digital McLuhan, ch. 3: Net Content (to be photocopied)
March 24, 2009-02-03
Closing session
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