Art and Experience
Objectives
a) To acquire an understanding of the specificity of Aesthetics and its problems and its relation to the philosophy of art.
b) The acquire a clear understanding of the notion of aesthetic experience on the basis of the meaning the concepts of experience and aesthetic experience have acquired in the history of philosophy.
c) To acquire the capacity to problematize the meaning and significance of this notion for the interpretation of contemporary art.
General characterization
Code
722031033
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Bartholomew John Ryan
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
Selective Bibliography
ABRAM, David. The Spell of the Sensuous, New York: Vintage Books, 2017.
DELEUZE, Gilles & GUATTARI, Félix. “Introduction: Rhizome”, A Thousand Plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
HARAWAY, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham and London: Duke University Press 2016.
HEIDEGGER, Martin. A Questão da Técnica. scientiæ zudia, São Paulo, v. 5, n. 3, p. 375-98.
JOYCE, James. Panaromas de Finnegans Wake. Edição e tradução de Augusto e Haroldo de Campos, São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 2001.
MARX, Karl. "Fragment on Machines", Grundrisse. Trans. Martin Nicolaus, London: Penguin Books, 1993, pp. 690-712.
SCHMITT, Carl. “Appropriation/Distribution/Production”. Appendix, capítulo 1 do livro The Nomos of the Earth. Trans. G.L. Ulmen, New York: Telos Press 2006.
MORTEN, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Cambridge, Harvard University Press 2012.
TSING, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2015.
Teaching method
(a) Most of the classes are an intertwining mix of lectures and dialogue, that is, theoretical exposition but with space for questions and intervention by students, as well as for reading relevant passages from the texts under analysis.
(b) Some classes are taught in the so-called seminar format, i.e., they consist of reading, commenting and analysing text.
(c) Finally, some classes consist of discussing with students topics already discussed and the problems they raise. Each student will have the opportunity to give a short presentation of 5-10 minutes on a particular text or theme of their choosing from the course. Which we then can discuss together.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Method:
Students are evaluated by:
1) a mandatory 12 page essay (50%)
2) an oral presentation of a theme from the course and attentive and active participation (50%)
Subject matter
What is the ecological thought? Where do we encounter it in art and philosophy? Philosophy and art forms have something to tell us about the environment, because they can make us question reality. In this course, we critically analyse diverse visions of ecological possibility/actuality in philosophy and art as a way of coexistence, critique and creativity on this damaged planet. We will navigate through diverse themes that might embody new forms and pathways for thinking and living the ecological thought in the crossover between philosophy and creative production. These themes include 1) Dark Geographies in the Nomos and Nomads of the Earth, 2) Multispecies Storytelling and Interpenetration, 3) Technology, Machines and Chaosmos, 4) Slowness and the Art of Observation, 5) Forests as the Shadow and Unconsciousness of Civilisations/Cultures.