Critical Theory of Media II. - YMM041

• Title: Critical Theory of Media II.
• Guaranteed by: Programme Electronic Culture and Semiotics (24-KEKS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (41)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Old code: YMM03PPLI
• Note: can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Benedetta Zaccarello, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : YMM03PPLI, YMM06P1M0, YMM11PSZI
• Is interchangeable with: YMM03PPLI

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Kačabová Piatková (15.06.2015)

Conceived as a continuation of the first year's program, the course aims to explore the concept of ideology in its connections to those of freedom, expression and communication. From this point of view, the question of possible evolutions of our mass media societies reveals wider potentials both from an ethical and from an anthropological point of view, involving the problem of desire in the social system of control and the perspective of a future development of human kind. To do so, students will be led to close read some important texts of H. Marcuse and Th. Adorno analysing those works in order to further explore the complexity of Frankfurt school's legacy.

Syllabus

English

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Kačabová Piatková (15.06.2015)

1. Summary of the concept of "cultural industry" and its use in the understanding of our contemporary democracies.

2. Cultural industry and desire.

3. From exterior domination to inner control: forms of persuasion, forms of obedience, forms of (pseudo)rebellion.

4. "One-dimensional man" in a one-dimensional society.

5. The legacy of Freud: ontogenetics and philogenetics.

6. The history of our civilisation as a history of repression.

7. Questioning the necessity of repression.

8. Repression and sublimation, expression and control.

9. The role of desire: eros in civilisation.

10. New ways on sublimation.

11. Eros, creation and procreation: the role of "perversion".

12. Reduction of our standards of living as a necessity for better living.

 

Bibliography

H. Marcuse, Eros and civilization (1955)
H. Marcuse, One/dimensional man: studies on the ideology of advanced industrial society (1964)
H. Marcuse, End of Utopia, 1967
H. Marcuse, An essay on liberation, 1969

Links to English versions:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/ch01.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/one-dimensional-man/one-dimensional-man.pdf

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1969/essay-liberation.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1967/end-utopia.htm