Course Schedule

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Authors, Users and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jan Müggenburg

Termin:
 14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 14.10.2024 - 01.12.2024 | HMS D19
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 09.12.2024 - 31.01.2025 | HMS 231/232

Inhalt: This seminar explores the complex relationships between authors, users, and pirates in the context of copyright law. Through a critical examination of historical and contemporary examples, we will delve into the ways in which these three subject positions intersect and influence one another. By analyzing the relational dynamics between authors, users, and pirates, we will shed light on the underlying justifications of copyright law and its impact on creativity, innovation, and subjectivity. The seminar will rely on the book "Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and the Subject of Creative Labor" by James Meese, which we will read together as part of this course. This book offers a new way to think about the author, user, and pirate in copyright law, proposing a relational framework that encompasses all three.

Media, Affect, Emotion (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Mathias Fuchs

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Do, 17.10.2024, 14:00 - Do, 17.10.2024, 17:30 | HMS D19
Einzeltermin | Do, 14.11.2024, 14:00 - Do, 14.11.2024, 17:30 | HMS D19
Einzeltermin | Do, 28.11.2024, 14:00 - Do, 28.11.2024, 17:30 | HMS D19
Einzeltermin | Fr, 17.01.2025, 14:00 - Fr, 17.01.2025, 19:00 | HMS 139
Einzeltermin | Sa, 18.01.2025, 10:00 - Sa, 18.01.2025, 18:00 | HMS 139

Inhalt: The seminar presents and discusses ways of understanding affect and emotions in a society that is shaped by digital media. Starting from William James’s study of mental activities and how these enable humans to adapt to their environment, classic and contemporary notions of affect and of emotion will be compared and critically analyzed. The seminar address possibilities for affect as a capacity of the body, as an anthropological inscription and a primary, ontological conjunctive and disjunctive process. Affect will be looked at as an arena within cultural history where political, mediatic and gender specific discourses are staged and negotiated. Bodily states, temporality, and aesthetics after Modernity lead to what Fredric Jameson calls the „Affective Turn“. Amongst other texts Marie-Luise Angerer’s „Ecology of affect : intensive milieus and contingent encounters“ (2017, meson press Lüneburg, Open Access) will serve as a starting point and key reference for the seminar.