GHIS 5118 -

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The New School

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Description:

Becoming Other: Mimesis, Alterity, and History in Time-Based Media Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course explores how genealogies of time-based media might serve as critical tools to think about difference. Our focus in the course is twofold. First, we explore methodological approaches to the history of technology, media, and subjectivity. Some questions we investigate are: How can we expand our conception of "media " How would we approach a history ofthe senses and perception How would one even historicize the very idea of time Second, we inquire into the ethical possibility such historical inquiry might offer for rethinking subjectivity, difference, and politics. Some of the questions we investigate: How might we consider these new historical forms of inquiry as modes of thinking about difference How do different accounts of mimesis, performance, and temporality specific to time-based media help us think about subjectivity, politics, and aesthetics How can these historical approaches complicate our thinking about nature and culture, machines and organisms, ourselves and others

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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