2024S
Monica Titton
Institut für Design, Mode
2023S, Vorlesung und Übungen (VU), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S04504
The seminar “Fashion and Cultural Studies II” provides a critical review of current theoretical, political, and cultural debates that shape fashion today. This term, the course's theme is “Mapping Fashion and its Discontents” and it is an invitation to pause and reflect on the fashion system as we know it, and to ask critical questions, to envision alternatives and to discuss new possibilities for the critical and necessary renewal of fashion. The course aims to re-assess what Theodor W. Adorno calls “das Ganze”: that is, the big picture of how the problematic facets of the fashion industry are connected to larger social, cultural and economic developments, and ultimately, to the crisis of capitalism.
The course maps four current sites of transformation in fashion:
After situating fashion and its discontents on a temporal and spatial topography of transformation, the final aim of the course is for students to write an essay with a self-chosen topic related to the course’s main themes.
The class will be a seminar with a high expectation of participation. Students have to come to class prepared to participate actively in class discussions and discuss the assigned readings.
Participation is crucial in this class because we will rely on in-class discussion to facilitate our analyses of the course texts. It is my hope that you will learn as much (or more) from each other as you will from me. Class participation means more than how much you say in class; it’s your effort to be present—both in mind and in body—in our discussions.
Attendance is particularly crucial in a discussion-based course.
To receive credits for this course, you have to fulfill the following requirements:
08. Juni 2023, 09:00–14:00 Seminarraum 9
09. Juni 2023, 09:00–14:30 Seminarraum 9
15. Juni 2023, 09:00–15:00, „room to be announced“
16. Juni 2023, 09:00–15:00 Seminarraum 33
Von 24. Februar 2023, 11:19 bis 08. Juni 2023, 21:00
Per Online Anmeldung
Design: Mode (2. Studienabschnitt): Mode-Kommunikation und Mode-Business: Mode und Cultural Studies II 584/207.02
Design: Mode (2. Studienabschnitt): Mode im Kontext: Mode und Kulturwissenschaften 584/208.06
Mitbelegung: möglich
Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: möglich