Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Biometrie: Vermessung des Selbst (Seminar)

Inhalt: „Die Einzigkeit des Menschen ist eine der zentralen Ordnungsbedingungen moderner Gesellschaften“, so Ricky Wichum in der Einleitung zu seinem Buch „Biometrie“ (2017). Doch wie wird sichergestellt, dass ein Individuum einzigartig ist? Welche Verfahren, Techniken und Praktiken werden zur Vermessung des Menschen, seiner Identifizierung und damit auch Kontrolle verwendet? Die Biometrie (bíos = Leben; métron = Maß), die Vermessung des Lebens, als eine solcher Festschreibungspraktiken, soll im Vordergrund des Seminars stehen. Nicht nur die Geschichte der Biometrie, welche zum Teil auf kriminaltechnische Verfahren um 1900 zurückzuführen ist, gibt einem erste Hinweise auf die Relevanz dieses Forschungsthemas. Biometrische Verfahren wurden und werden täglich eingesetzt, um Menschen zu identifizieren, zu regulieren und zu vergleichen – und dies dient nicht nur der allgemeinen Überwachung und Sicherheit. Das Anwendungsfeld der Biometrie ist divers: Von der Festschreibung und Vermessung von Geflüchteten an den EU-Außengrenzen; über die kriminaltechnischen Vermessung dessen, was als „kriminelles“ oder „abweichendes“ Verhalten verstanden wird; bis zur freiwilligen Selbstvermessung von Individuen durch Schrittzähler, Fitnessgadgets oder Gentests. Gegenwärtige biometrische Verfahren können potentiell das ganze Leben vermessen. In Bezug auf die Arbeiten des französischen Philosophen und Historikers Michel Foucault, dienen Machttechniken der Disziplinierung und Regulierung auch einer biopolitischen Regierungsform, also einer Machtform, die die Subjekte und Körper im Ganzen regiert. Im Seminar werden wir verschiedene biometrische Praktiken und Technologien gemeinsam medienkulturellen Fragestellungen unterziehen: Wie werden medientechnischen Apparate verwendet? Was erklärt uns ihre medienhistorische Geschichte? Welche Technik-Mensch-Interaktionen können wir herausarbeiten? Welche sozialtheoretischen Arbeiten helfen uns bei dem Entwurf einer eigener Forschungsfrage? Einführende Literatur: Wichum, Ricky (2017): Biometrie. Zur Soziologie der Identifikation. München: Fink. Mai, Steffen (2017): Das metrische Wir. Über die Quantifizierung des Sozialen. Berlin: Suhrkamp. Pugliese, Joseph (2010): Biometrics. Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics. New York/London: Routledge. Auswahlliteratur: Ajana, Btihaj (2013): Governing through Biometrics. The Biopolitics of Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Browne, Simone (2015): Dark Matters. On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham/London: Duke University Press. Finn, Jonathan (2009): Capturing the Criminal Image. From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press. Lupton, Deborah (2016): The Quantified Self. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press. Schaupp, Simon (2016): Digitale Selbstüberwachung. Self-Tracking im kybernetischen Kapitalismus. Heidelberg: Graswurzelrevolution.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures
Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Media Cultures

Hashtags for Survival (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Nishant Shah

Inhalt: When the World Wide Web was created, there was a romantic notion that it was a space where all the inequities of the world will be forgotten and we had a chance to start things from scratch. But for anybody who has been online, we know that the Internet is a space that not only reflects the systems of exclusion, domination, control, and policing in the offline world, but it sometimes amplifies them and creates new ways of discrimination and oppression. This course focuses on contemporary relationships between technology and control of bodies that are marked by class, race, and gender, to understand the politics of control and systems of domination that surround us. Examining a range of contemporary debates around phenomena like 'slut-shaming', racial violence, class-based discrimination and cyber bullying and abuse, the course draws from post colonial theory, software studies, and gender and sexuality studies to help understand the relationship between body and technology, but also to look at new strategies of coping and resisting the ways in which our bodies are governed and shaped in digital cultures.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures
Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Media Cultures

Media & Affect (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Steffen Krämer

Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 16.10.2018 - 01.02.2019 | HMS 139 | Termin am 30.10. entfällt!
Einzeltermin | Di, 06.11.2018, 14:00 - Di, 06.11.2018, 17:00 | HMS 139

Inhalt: It is a common saying that anger, panic but also revolutionary upheavals spread through social networks like a wildfire or an epidemic, taking the masses at an instant. In German, we sometimes refer to spontaneous emotional outbursts and actions as having occurred „im Affekt“ or in the heat of the moment. What is this mysterious notion of affect? Sociology, cultural studies, and by extension media studies, have seen a so-called „affective turn“ (Clough 2007) in the recent decades. The study of affect is connected to but also importantly differs from the study of emotions, we are told. With its assumptions often routed both in philosophy and psychology, some affect theorists are more interested in the lures, resonances, and intensities, that are taken to be more basic than our emotions, attitudes, or moods. Moreover, affects are said to circulate between us, less as a meaningful message, but rather as a contagious feeling of connection or disconnection. However, the interplay between affects and how we experience and verbalize them remains problematic, and how this is construed often distinguishes the different theories in the variegated spectrum of affect studies. In this seminar, we will critically engage with some of the foundational texts from the field of affect theory, and discuss more extensively how it relates to media studies. Each session consists of an introductory presentation, followed by collective reading exercises, and a reflection on the methodical grounds on which media scholars have approached the emerging field of affect theory.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures
Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Media Cultures

Queer Digital Cultures (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 15.10.2018 - 01.02.2019 | C 40.165 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This seminar examines the ways that digital media, technologies and infrastructures shape ‘queer cultures’ (broadly conceived). It is organised in two parts. Part One critically interrogates three influential efforts to theorise the relationship between transformations in information, digital and other technologies, and those in the fields of gender and sexuality; namely, Donna Haraway’s (1985) “Manifesto for Cyborgs”, Paul B. Preciado’s (2013) “Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era”, and Laboria Cuboniks’ (2014) “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation”. Part Two of the seminar, examines, first, very recent empirical as well as theoretically-informed work on the ways that digital media and technologies are transforming queer life (again, broadly conceived) and, second, the extent to which the study of digital cultures can be productively approached from a queer perspective. Topics addressed in this seminar include: the role of digital media in transgender (self-)representation; how social media hashtags can facilitate both the production of community and the stabilization of identity categories; Transgender Studies’ uses of digital archives; how LGBT and queer intimacies are being transformed through dating apps; the role of ‘machine reading’ (or algorithmic analyses) in identifying sites of online queerness; the limits of ‘virtual participation’ in queer online activism; and the ways that digital media, bio-technologies and ‘techno-capitalism’ play a role in regulating sexuality, gender and pleasure today. (A draft syllabus is available via this seminar's "Materials" folder on myStudy.)

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures
Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Media Cultures