Untimely Meditations
Course Convenor: Prof Sue Golding
Course Code: PHIL 1048
This course investigates the radical move, initiated by Nietzsche and Heidegger, and later (and by different paths) Einstein, Cage, Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, and Lyotard, away from dialectical reasoning, toward the more multi-dimensioned, sensuous complexities of curve-speed/time relativities, rhizomatic moves and emotion/al logics in contemporary art practises and new media environs.
In so doing, it a different kind of representation – one that maybe or is closer to a surface circuitry structure; that is, a kind of ‘event’ based on a non-linear temporality /speed/ space poetics (one could say here, also, a kind of sensuous philology or mathematics). As with the preceding unit (Foundations I: Contemporary Political Philosophy & Aesthetics), this Untimely Meditations (Foundations II) takes as a given not only that contemporary political philosophies are at the forefront of scholarship in new media arts, but that its practise requires a delicate interlacing of rhizomatic method with the various practising arts (moving image, sound, the digital and analogue arts, photography, gaming, etc).
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