Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Lehrveranstaltungen
Screenology (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Cheryce von Xylander
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 06.04.2021 - 09.07.2021 | C 5.019 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Screening has figured in evocations of cognition from the beginning of recorded thought. Plato famously invoked the parable of the cave to explain the difference between reality and representations thereof. In contemporary philosophy, the representational theory of mind forms a distinct branch of enquiry. The trope of the screen is so prevalent in theorizing the schism between being and seeming, reality and illusion, lived experience and dreams that its conceptual articulation long preceded its actual instantiation in commodity form. The functionality of screens with their myriad projection potentialities are inseparably linked with the mediation and actualization of experience itself. We will embark on an archaeology of screen life reaching from the magic lantern show of the 17th century to the touchscreens and beamers of the interactive classroom.
Semiotic creatures (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Cheryce von Xylander
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:00 | 06.04.2021 - 09.07.2021 | C 5.311 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Humans develop their humanity in proximity with others while immersed in the protean complex that is society. The singular subjects spawned in that process can be understood as “semiotic creatures”, that is to say beings defined by the symbols and signs they deploy in a distinctive way. These embodied semiotic creatures also generate semiotic creatures of their own – mythical figurations that come in all shapes and sizes. As a result, a vast typology of avatars, divine and earthly, populate the cumulative archive of humanity’s cultural imaginary. These non-biological semiotic creatures, which figure as conduits of expression for individual and collective experience, can take on a “life” of their own. Indeed, the anthropoesis of semiotic creation seems to form a great chain of being in which human subjectivity and humanoid subjects constitute a symbiotic union. This seminar explores how the secondary, derivative populace of semiotic creatures may reinforce the autonomy of the semiotic creatures from which they continually issue forth.