Session
Regular Academic Session
COLIT-GA 2978 - 002
Topics:
Class Number
23893
Career
Graduate
Units
4 units
Grading
GSAS Graded
Topic
The Information Society
Notes
This course is about information culture. The concept "information," first formalized after the Second World War, emerged slowly from the Enlightenment to the 20th century, when it invaded the sciences and the humanities alike. Information circulates unpredictably, autonomously, forming not just logistical channels but also a general aesthetics that demands critique. Beginning with debates on poetry around 1800, the course looks forward to Logical Positivism, the computing revolution, and large-scale data processing. We will analyze the aesthetics of information in authors including but not limited to Friedrich Schlegel, Sianne Ngai, Hanne Darboven, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Max Bense, Jacques Lacan, Friedrich Hayek, Jodi Dean, Kathrin Röggla, and Hito Steyerl.| Sponsored by the Department of German
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Class Details
Instructor(s)
Leif Weatherby
Meets
We 2:00PM - 4:45PM
Dates
01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022
Room
42 Wash Mews (Deutsches Haus) Room 001 Loc: Washington Square
Instruction Mode
In-Person
Campus
Washington Square
Location
Washington Square
Components
| Lecture Required |
Class Availability
Status
Open
Combined Section
False
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