2020W
Boris Buden
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
2021W, Vorlesung und Diskussion (VD), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S03563
Cross-Disciplinary Studies: A Historical Introduction I
How is the truth of the world revealed? What does it mean “to know”? What differentiates knowledge from belief and both from an artistic creation? Does knowledge have an end in itself, or rather, it finds its raison d'être in its practical use? Why and how was it divided into various disciplines and does this disciplinary division still make sense today? Finally, is knowledge always objective and neutral, or rather makes itself dependent on particular interests of political power, social class, gender or economic production? These and similar questions will be asked from historical perspective and put in a broader social and political context. The answers will be given by Plato, Kant and Foucault and discussed with Hannah Arendt, Gayatri Spivak and Donna Haraway—across disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, social theory, historiography, linguistics, psychoanalysis, cultural and post-colonial studies etc.
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave, Republic, VII. (514a, 2 to 517a, 7)
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf
Plato's Allegory of the Cave -- Narrated by Orson Welles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFi8JUIwu2s
Plato’s Cave Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axARKd24eHo
Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?"
http://web.cn.edu/KWHEELER/documents/What_is_Enlightenment.pdf
Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. (selected excerpt to be uploaded)
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things. An Archeology of the Human Sciences, London, New York: Routledge, 1989.
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2013/SOC911/um/Michel_Foucault_The_Order_of_Things.pdf
Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Stanford: Stanford California Press, 1991. Chapter 1, An Intellectual Adventure (1-19)
http://abahlali.org/files/Ranciere.pdf
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~vanlondp/wgss320/articles/haraway-cyborg-manifesto.pdf
Gayatri Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
http://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf
Consists in the active participation and contribution (discursive, textual and performative).
The module grading is based on the mentioned contribution, active in-class participation and
“Students from other departments or universities will be given a place on the course subject to room capacities.”
27. Oktober 2021, 15:30–18:00 CDS Lecture Room
29. Oktober 2021, 13:45–18:00 CDS Lecture Room
12. Jänner 2022, 12:45–18:00 CDS Lecture Room
14. Jänner 2022, 13:45–18:00 CDS Lecture Room
Von 14. September 2021, 09:02 bis 31. Oktober 2021, 23:55
Per Online Anmeldung
Mitbelegung: möglich
Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: möglich