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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Philosophy of Media - YMFPR158
Title: Philosophie und technische Medien
Guaranteed by: Programme Deutsche und französische Philosophie (24-DFP)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: German
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
Guarantor: Dr. phil. habil. Hans Rainer Sepp, M.A., mimořádný profesor Univerzity Karlovy
Annotation -
The Technical Dimension Between Resistance and Mediality. Can the genesis of the technical—setting aside both faith in progress and technophobia—be understood as a process that unfolds in the interplay between real pressure and imaginative response, thereby shaping medial spaces? If so, this genesis cannot be described without reference to the experience of resistance—namely, that dealing with the pressure of the resistant gives rise to both desire and labor and evokes medial structures: the unfolding of imaginative worlds as well as the development of tools through to automation. This mediali-zation intensifies with the staging of utopian escapes, which, particularly in the context of European-Western initiatives, progresses toward an escalating imaginization of the real, extending to utopias of the self-abolition of bodily existence. This raises further questions: Does this will toward relief, toward becoming literally light, in conjunction with an illumina-tion of the world, place the old European legacy of the Enlightenment in a broader context? Is it, in its demarcation from everything that is not illuminated, itself still bound to darkness and thus ultimately an illusion, insofar as the fact that life is embedded in real resistance, and also the resistance of physical bodies, remain like shadows that cannot be erased? And is the desire for relief and lightening inevitable, or does it represent a self- imposed limitation, such that other possibilities might still be available to technology and the media?
Last update: Vinterová Lenka, Mgr. (16.06.2026)
Course completion requirements

Final paper 

Last update: Vinterová Lenka, Mgr. (06.10.2022)
Registration requirements

This course is not open in the winter semester 2025.

Last update: Vinterová Lenka, Mgr. (19.06.2025)
 
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