Medienkonvergenz und -hybridisierung III

Wolfgang Fiel
Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, Digital Arts
2016W, Seminar (SE), 3.0 semester hours, course number S00497

Description

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?

To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy.

Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory as much as an entertaining reckoning with popular culture.

Examination Modalities

Oral examination

Comments

Seminar is held in English

Attendance is mandatory

Key Words

interventionist art

Dates

Mon, 10 October 2016, 18:00–19:00 Lecture Room Digital Art (preliminary discussion)
Mon, 07 November 2016, 18:00–21:00 Lecture Room Digital Art
Mon, 21 November 2016, 18:00–21:00 Lecture Room Digital Art
Mon, 05 December 2016, 18:00–21:00 Lecture Room Digital Art
Mon, 23 January 2017, 18:00–21:00 Lecture Room Digital Art
Mon, 30 January 2017, 18:00–21:00 Lecture Room Digital Art

Course Enrolment

Until 10 October 2016, 18:00
Via email: wolfgang.fiel@uni-ak.ac.at

Co-registration: possible

Attending individual courses: possible