Literate Technologies - AAALF101D

• Title: Literate Technologies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.

Annotation

LITERATE TECHNOLOGIES (Spring 2022)

David Vichnar, PhD ([e-mail])
Office Hours: By e-mail appointment
Compulsory PhD Course; Optional M.A. Course – Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Thu 14.10-15.40, Room 34)

DESCRIPTION

It is the aim of this seminar to introduce students from a broad range of backgrounds, and with diverse interests within the philologies, to a set of theoretical and practical issues that accompany any deeper study of language, literature and literacy, and which bear significance beyond the academic domain of literary studies. Through a selective reading of literary and philosophical works, a number of key questions will be addressed: what is language; how does language happen; what makes language possible; how does language define the contours of thought; what is intelligence; is such a thing as artificial intelligence possible; can machines read; what is writing; what are the technological conditions of literacy? The purpose of the seminar is not to assume a philosophical approach to these questions, but to explore how different writers address the question of literacy—within the domain of literature and literary studies, and in accord with changing historical/ technological conditions, in particular since the advent of print media.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For Syllabus and grading information please see the course Moodle page: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=6435

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (28.11.2022)