Print syllabusAesthetic Sensibility in the Anthropocene
General data
| Course ID: | 3501-WEA20-S |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
08.1
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| Course title: | Aesthetic Sensibility in the Anthropocene |
| Name in Polish: | Wrażliwość estetyczna w epoce antropocenu |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Philosophy |
| Course groups: | |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | Polish |
| Type of course: | elective seminars |
| Prerequisites (description): | The seminar is addressed to people who are interested in problems of philosophical aesthetics and art. The students are expected to have knowledge of philosophy in order to be able to study and reinterpret traditional aesthetic categories. A compulsory requirement to participate in classes is to be lively interested in contemporary transformations of broadly understood sensibility related to antropocene issues. |
| Mode: | Classroom |
| Short description: |
During the past two centuries, the global effects of human activities have become clearly noticeable. Paul Josef Crutzen, atmospheric chemist and the Nobel-Prize winner, known for his work on climate change developed the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new era when human actions have a dramatic and significant effect (urbanization, industrialization, large scale migration, global warming) on the Earth. |
| Full description: |
During the past two centuries, the global effects of human activities have become clearly noticeable. Paul Josef Crutzen, atmospheric chemist and the Nobel-Prize winner, known for his work on climate change developed the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new era when human actions have a dramatic and significant effect (urbanization, industrialization, large scale migration, global warming) on the Earth. In response to the environmental crisis a new form of aesthetic sensibility have arrived. We would like to investigate the sense of traditional aesthetic categories, and explore some aesthetic experiences (like a „lab”) of the new form of relations between people and the environment. We are aiming to research some questions like: What is the role of environmental aesthetics today? Is the environmental aesthetic able to protect what has not been lost yet, or would it be in a position to reveal the range of this loss and reveal some new possibilities and resolutions? Together with investigation of mentioned issues a reflection on the contemporary architecture will also be included. The main focus will be on these architectural projects in which the use of new technological possibilities meets human needs and are combined with a fascination of the complexity of natural processes. During the seminar various films related to the discussed issues will be used/presented/investigated. |
| Bibliography: |
Fragm.z: P. Crutzen, W. Steffen, How long have we been in the Anthropocene era?, „Climatic Change” 2003 vol. 61, no. 3. T. Ingold, Splatać otwarty świat, przeł. E. Klekot, „Instytut Architektury”, Kraków, 2018 B. Latour, Dajcie mi laboratorium a poruszę świat, przeł. K. Abriszewski, Ł. Afeltowicz, „Teksty Drugie” 2009 nr ½; tegoż: Polityka natury, „Krytyka Polityczna”, Warszawa, 2009; tegoż ,Nadzieja Pandory, przeł. K. Arbiszewski, Wyd. UMK, Toruń, 2013, tegoż : Ostukując architekturę Koolhaasa laseczką ślepca,,przeł. A Leśniak „Architektura- Murator”, nr 1. Natural Metaphor . An Anthology of Essays on Architecture and Nature, „Actar” , 2007. J. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Tysiące Plateau, „Fundacja Bęc Zmiana”, Warszawa 2016 J. Deleuze, Logika sensu, przeł. G. Wilczyński, PWN, Warszawa, 2011; tegoż:, Fałda, przeł. M. Janik, Królak, PWN,Warszawa, 2014 G. Agamben, Nagość, przeł. K. Żaboklicki, W.A. B, Warszawa, 2010 J. Derrida Widma Marksa. Stan długu, praca żałoby i nowa Międzynarodówka, PWN, przeł. T. Załuski, Warszawa 2016. G. Harman Traktat o przedmiotach, przeł. M. Rychter, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2013. R. Koolhas, Śmieciowa przestrzeń . Teksty, przeł. M. Wawrzyńczak,” „Centrum Architektury”, Warszawa, 2017. A Yanewa, A Building is a Multiverse, in Making things Public, „MIT Press,” 2005; A Yanewa , B. Latour, Give me a Gun and I wll will make All the Building Move, An ANT Viev of Architecture in: Explanations in Architecture. Teaching, Design, Research, red. G. Redo, Basel, 2008. G Lynn, Animate Form, „Princeton Architectural Press”, New York, 1999; tegoż: Architectural Curvilinearity: the Folded , the Pliantand the Supple , w: „Folding in Architecture”, Chichester, 2004. D. Chakrabarty , Klimat historii. Cztery tezy, przeł. M. Szcześniak, „Teksty Drugie”, 2014; tegoż: Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change, „New Literary History” , 2012 vol. 43,no. 1, D. J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, Duke University Press Durham and London 2016. A. Lowenhaupt Tsin, The Mushroom at theEnd of the World On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press 2015. T. Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, „Columbia University Press”, New York, 2016; tegoż: Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London 2007; tegoż: Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People, Verso, London–New York 2017, tegoż: Hyperobjects. Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, The University of Minnesota Press, 2013; tegoż: Extinction Studies. Stories of Time, Death,and Generations, ed. by D. Bird Rose, Th. van Dooren, and M. Chrulew, „Columbia University Press”, 2017. Filmografia: Ah Humanity! reż. L. Castaing-Taylor, V. Paravel, E. Karel, Francja/Japonia/USA 2015 Crossroads, reż. B. Conner, USA 2015 Konie z Fukushimy, reż. Yoju Matsubayashi, Japonia 2013 The Sailor, reż. G. Giaretta, Holandia/Włochy 2017 Notes from the Anthropocene, reż. T. Long, Kanada 2014 Spętany horyzont, reż. L. Marxt, Austria 2015 Silica, reż. P. Borg, Australia/Wielka Brytania 2017 |
| Learning outcomes: |
Acquired knowledge: the graduate knows and understands - to a greater extent – research methods and argumentative strategies of selected philosophical disciplines and methods of interpretation of philosophical text K_W02 P7S_WG -selected directions and development positions of modern philosophy within one Block of main philosophical disciplines; in this case: 3) aesthetics, philosophy of culture, history of philosophy K_W06 P7S_WG -to a greater extent – the relationship between the formation of philosophical ideas and changes in culture and society; understands the fundamental role that philosophical ideas play in the creation of cultural works and institutions K_W11 P7S_WG P7S_WK Acquired skills: the graduate is able to: -independently interpret a philosophical text, creatively and innovatively comment and confront theses derived from various texts K_U01 P7S_UW -find relationships between the shaping of philosophical ideas and cultural processes, and determine the relationships between these interdependencies K_U16 P7S_UW Acquired social competences: the graduate is ready to: - actively participate in social and cultural life; is interested in innovative and cultural life; is interested in innovative philosophical concepts in connection with other parts of cultural, artistic and social life and encourages the implementation of these concepts K_K05 P7S_KO |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
The basis for the final grade will be: - student's participation during classes (the level of knowledge of texts, the ability to critically evaluate the issues raised in them, the ability of using arguments during the discussion; 2) the undertaking of additional work consisting of preparation of at least one (during the semester) paper or presentation expanding the issues raised in the texts and discussed in the classes (including the illustrative material selected individually). This presentation will be evaluated. Permissible number of absences: 2 in a semester |
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