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Lecturer(s)
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Jirsa Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Organized as a set of creative workshops, the Ph.D. optional course will focus on the current interdisciplinary approach of cultural analysis that explores various cultural objects (texts, images, media) on the background of dialogue between literary theory, aesthetics, art theory, cultural affect studies, and media philosophy. The methodological and theoretical framework of the seminar consists of three key concepts - affect, medium, and performativity - which transgress individual codes, structural categories, and genre specificities in favor of providing a complex analysis of the aesthetic and theoretical activity of artifacts, cultural practices, and media strategies as well as their social constellations.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 125 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim is to examine the conceptual background and contribution of the cutting-edge interdisciplinary approach of cultural analysis that explores cultural objects (texts, images, media) and practices throughout a dialogue between literary theory, aesthetics, art theory, cultural affect studies and media philosophy; to improve the analytical and argumentation skills of Ph.D. students, to improve their critical and conceptual thinking; to acquire the basic concepts peculiar to cultural analysis: affect, medium, performativity.
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Prerequisites
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Completed M.A. study program.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance
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Recommended literature
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Alphen, Ernst van. (2008). Affective Operations of Art and Literature.
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Alphen, Ernst van; Jirsa, Tomáš. (2019). How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices. Leiden.
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Attridge, Derek - Elliott, Jane. (2011). Theory after "Theory". London.
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Bal, Mieke; Boer, Inge E. (1994). The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis. New York.
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Bal, Mieke. (2002). Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide. Toronto.
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Bennett, Tony; Frow, John. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis.
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Hediger, Vinzenz - De Rosa, Miriam. (2016). Post-what? Post-when? A Conversation on the "Posts" of Post-media and Post-cinema.
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Jenkins, Henry. (2006). Convergence culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York.
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Latour, Bruno. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. New York.
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Shaviro, Steven. (2010). Post Cinematic Affect. New York.
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