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Wolfgang Schirmacher
Biography | Lectures | Bibliography | Resources | Links
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ARTIFICAL LIFE (3 credits)
Examines the creative possibilities of/in cyberlife and provides a philosophical framework for an encounter with the art of living as artificial eXistence by nature. (with Shelley Jackson)
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Bell, David and Barbara M. Kennedy. The Cybercultures Reader.
Routledge. March 2000, 800 pages, Library Binding, 1st edition, ISBN: 0415183782. Buy it at Amazon.com.
March 2000, 800 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0415183790. Buy it
at Amazon.com.
Schopenhauer,
Arthur. Philosophical Writings (German Library, Vol 27). Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor). Continuum Pub Group. June 1997, 300 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0826407285. Buy it at Amazon.com.
July 1994, 300 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0826407293. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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Course 2 |
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INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits)
A philosophical survey covering the cutting-edge strategies of communications and how these ideas change media.
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Course 3 |
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MEDIA AESTHETICS (3 credits)
Lyotard's thoughts on the sublime, Deleuze's rehabilitation of the monad, and Levinas' ethics of the other contribute to the media aesthetics of Homo generator.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Lyotard, Jean-François. L'Inhumain: causeries sur le temps. Galilée. Paris, 1988, 219 pages, Paperback (Broché), ISBN: 2718603305. Buy it at Amazon.fr.
Christine Pries (Translation). Das Inhumane: Plaudereinen über die Zeit. Passagen. Vienna, 1989.
Geoffrey Bennington, Rachel Bowlby(Translation). The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Polity. Cambridge; Blackwell. Oxford; Stanford University Press. Stanford, California, February 1992, Hardcover, ISBN: 0804720061. Buy it at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. May 1992, 216 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0804720088. Buy it at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Deleuze, Gilles and Tom Conley (Translation). The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. University of Minnesota Press. January 1993, 192 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0816615985. Buy it at Amazon.com. November 1992, 168 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0816616019. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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Course 4 |
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MEDIA PHILOSOPHY (3 credits)
Explores innovations in communication by applying 20th century philosophy to a discussion of today's media theory, practice, and criticism.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
McNeill, William and Karen Feldman. Continental Philosophy: An Anthology Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, 6). Blackwell Publishers. April 1998, 656 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1557867003. Buy it at Amazon.com.
July 1998, 656 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1557865612. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Schirmacher,
Wolfgang (Editor), T. W. Adorno and M. Horkheimer. German 20th Century Philosophy : The Frankfurt School (German Library, Vol 78 (Cloth). Continuum Pub Group. New York, February 2000, 324 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0826409660. Buy it at Amazon.com.
May 2000, 324 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0826409679. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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Course 5 |
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MEDIA CULTURE (3 credits)
Critical challenges to a media culture unaware of its potential as post-technological event and ethics of singularity.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Être singulier pluriel. Collection La Philosophie en effet. Galilée. Paris, 1996, 210 pages, Paperback (Broché), ISBN: 2718604700. Buy it at Amazon.fr. Robert D. Richardson, Anne E. O'Byrne (Translation). Being singular plural. Meridian. Stanford University Press. Stanford, California, November 2000, 207 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0804739749. Buy it at Amazon.com. 256 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0804739757. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Deconstruction. A Reader. Ed. Martin McQuillan. Routledge, March 2001, 571 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0415936888. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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Course 6 |
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MEDIA CULTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL LIFE (3 credits)
Explores media culture as post-technological event, a potential for artificial Dasein and parallel ethics.
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MEDIA PHILOSOPHY: GEVIERT (3 credits)
Jean-François Lyotard's thoughts on the sublime, Gilles Deleuze's rehabilitation of the Monad, Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the Other, Avital Ronell's test drive are merged into the media philosophy of Homo Generator.
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PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY (3 credits)
Discusses the contributions of philosophers such as Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze and Vilem Flusser to an authentic understanding of the technological age.
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Course 9 |
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THE SELF AND THE BRAIN (3 credits)
Examines the mystery of the interrelation between the self and the brain and addresses questions crucial to the image of ourselves. Readings include classical and recent works in philosophy, studies in neuroscience, and the history of science.
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