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課程名稱 |
當代藝術與多元共生
Contemporary Art and Multiple Coexistence |
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開課學期 |
114-2 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學系 |
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授課教師 |
陳春燕 |
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課號 |
FL3319 |
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課程識別碼 |
102E37120 |
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班次 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
必修 |
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上課時間 |
星期五2,3,4(9:10~12:10) |
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上課地點 |
新403 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限：40人 |
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課程概述 |
※UPDATE as of Feb. 22※
If you are not currently enrolled in this course but are interested in taking it for credit, please sign up at the following site by February 26:
https://forms.gle/J8xRLmyFka8CyXs9A
Some adjustment has been made to the course requirements. Details will be provided in the first class meeting.
※READ ME FIRST※
1. Policy on generative AI: You are welcome to use it in other classes on campus, but not in this one! Before AGI is here, this instructor believes that the task of the humanities is to help students think independently. To that end, it is absolutely forbidden to ask generative AI to compile bibliographies or summarize any course material for you. You are to sign a pledge at the beginning of the semester promising to comply with this rule; if you don't agree, please don't take the course.
2. Three national holidays fall on Friday, the day of our class meeting, so please note that there won't be much leeway for you to skip class. And homework is expected for one of the holidays.
3. The first week of the semester is a holiday. For the first class meeting, on March 6, please prepare in advance the required reading, which can be found in the Announcements section of this website.
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Course Agenda:
Through the lens of contemporary art, this course aims to introduce students to some of the most important conversations on the human condition in recent decades. We will read selections of writings by leading philosophers, anthropologists, social thinkers, and new media scholars on such critical concepts as the posthuman, the transhuman, the more-than-human, the Anthropocene, and man-machine assemblages. On the other hand, we flesh out our understanding of these concepts by looking at exemplary contemporary art projects. The goal is to examine how these thinkers and artists respond to the crisis of humanity today, not least the urgency or difficulty of coexistence of various kinds in the face of climate change, capitalist exploitation, nuclear threat, and challenges posed by machine intelligence.
What is learned in this class is resonant with developments in other cultural realms such as literature, film, and television. The course aims to make the students perceptive observers of the contemporary world.
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課程目標 |
1) To learn different lines of argument that constitute present-day discussion of the predicament of human life and to debate these issues sophisticatedly
2) To acquire literacy in contemporary art and appreciate its relevance for testing out inspirational worldviews
3) To hone skills of analysis and argumentation, and to become an articulate thinker
4) To become interested in interdisciplinary studies and in applying knowledge gained here to future careers in content creation, research and development, or the arts
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課程要求 |
1. Regular attendance.
Unexcused absence from three weeks will result in zero point on the “preparation, attendance, class participation” part of the final grade. Unexcused absence from five weeks means a failing grade for the semester.
2. Visit to one art exhibition and attendance at the talk organized by the instructor.
3. Preparation and class participation.
4. Midterm exam.
In-class written exam on required readings of Weeks 2-11.
5. Final project.
In a group of 2-3 people, write a prospectus for an art project. Imagine that you are to collaborate with an artist to create a project that reflects on one important issue confronting us today, and you are responsible for laying out the “theoretical” part. Length requirement (for the entire assignment): for 2 people, 1,200 words; for 3 people, 1,800 words. More guidelines will be provided in class. Due by June 19.
NOTE: Cheating on exams, plagiarism on any assignment or violation of the rule regarding generative AI will result in a failing grade.
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預期每週課前或/與課後學習時數 |
Before class: 2-3 hours. |
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Office Hours |
備註： By appointment (normally Tuesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon). |
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指定閱讀 |
Required Readings (incl. web sources):
Bates, Tarsh. “S(c)en(t)sory Foraging: The Eros of Olfaction in Multi-species Metabolisms.” Webinar. The Eco- and Bioart Lab. Linköping University, 30 Oct. 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIsqfsIaBwU
Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2013.
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Curated and edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing et al. Stanford U, 2021. https://feralatlas.org/
Gan, Elaine. “Interdisciplinarity: Experiments for More-Than-Human Worlding.” Lecture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, NYU Shanghai, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLYVN-CWGQ
Haraway, Donna. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities 6 (2015): 159-65.
Hayles, N. Katherine. “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions.” Critical Inquiry 43.1 (2016): 32-55.
---. “The Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities.” Critical Inquiry 42.4 (2016): 783-808.
Keating, Thomas P. “Deep Futures, Radioactivity, and the Arts.” Webinar. The Eco- and Bioart Lab. Linköping University, 24 Jan. 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfy9YUwF__g
Keating, Thomas P., and Anna Storm. “Nuclear Memory: Archival, Aesthetic, Speculative.” Progress in Environmental Geography 2.1-2 (2023): 97-117.
Latour, Bruno. “From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik: Or How to Make Things Public.” Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2005. 1-33.
Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz. “Nietzsche, the Overman, and Transhumanism.” Journal of Evolution and Technology 20.1 (2009): 29-42.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2015.
Zalasiewicz, Jan, et al. “The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369.1938 (2011): 835-841.
**Artists to be studied include but are not limited to the following:
Ahtila, Eija-Liisa.
Beesley, Philip.
Eliasson, Olafur.
Huyghe, Pierre.
Ikeda, Ryoji (池田亮司).
Labay, Eyong (林介文).
MacDonald, Fiona.
Perraud, Stéphane, and Aram Kebabdjian.
Pestel, Michael.
Stelarc.
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參考書目 |
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Seventh History and Theory Lecture: Anthropocene Time.” History and Theory 57.1 (2018): 5-32.
Haraway, Donna J. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. By Haraway. London: Routledge, 1991. 149-81.
---. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2016.
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
Ingold, Tim. The Life of Lines. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
---. Lines. 2007. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
Keating, Thomas P., and Nina Williams. “Geophilosophies: Towards Another Sense of the Earth.” Subjectivity 15 (2022): 93-108.
Latour, Bruno. Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2017.
---. “‘We Don’t Seem to Live on the Same Planet’: A Fictional Planetarium.” Walker Art Center: Designs for Different Futures. Walker Art Center, 8 Mar. 2021. Web. 22 Jan. 2022.
Wilde, Niels. “Anthropocene Horcruxes: Toward a Theory of Distributed Identities.” SubStance 51.2 (2022): 73-89.
Wolfe, Cary. Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2022.
---. What Is Posthumanism? Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
Zalasiewicz, Jan, et al. “The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines.” Earth’s Future 9.3 (2021): n. pag. Web. Accessed 27 Mar. 2022.
---. “Scale and Diversity of the Physical Technosphere: A Geological Perspective.” The Anthropocene Review 4.1 (2017): 9-22.
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評量方式
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百分比 |
說明 |
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preparation, attendance, class participation |
20% |
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midterm exam |
40% |
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final project |
40% |
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- 本校尚無訂定 A+ 比例上限。
- 本校採用等第制評定成績，學生成績評量辦法中的百分制分數區間與單科成績對照表僅供參考，授課教師可依等第定義調整分數區間。詳見學習評量專區 (連結)。
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