CMS 573 A: Aesthetics

Autumn 2020
Meeting:
Th 3:30pm - 6:50pm / * *
SLN:
12780
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
A DISCOURSE OF THE BODY OFFERED VIA REMOTE LEARNING
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

“A Discourse of the Body”: Aesthetics and Media Technology

This course considers aesthetics as sensory experience. Taking our lead from the Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (sense perception, sensation, perception), we will consider how media technology – digital images, film, music, television, video, film – effect sensory perception and are affected by sensory perception.  The emphasis will be on key terms in contemporary scholarship of media aesthetics – affect, embodiment, attention – as well as concepts once considered peripheral to the study of aesthetics – boredom, atmosphere, cuteness.  

This seminar mixes canonical and foundational figures such as Walter Benjamin and Marshall McLuhan with emerging scholarship from Byung-Chul Han and Sianne Ngai. 

Catalog Description:
Inquiry into such areas as the sensory perception, cultural valuation, or close analysis of cinema and media. Formal, theoretical, and philosophical approaches. Content varies. Offered: AWSp.
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Withdrawn
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March 28, 2024 - 7:56 am