schedule

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Subjectivity, Politics, and Hyperstition

Week 1: Introductions, Syllabus, Course Overview

Week 2: Political Affect and its History

• “We are All Very Anxious.” Institute for Precarious Consciousness. 2017.
• "Emotional Capitalism" from Psychopolitics by Byung Chul Han. 2014.

Week 3: The Stakes of Psyche

• The Three Ecologies. Felix Guattari. 1989.

Week 4: The State of Psyche

• “On the Production of Subjectivity.” Chaosmosis. Felix Guattari. 1992.

Week 5: Freud Revivalism

• The Freudian Robot. Lydia Liu, 2010. Chapter 5, pgs 201-248.
• "Anxiety in the Net of Signifiers". Anxiety. Jacques Lacan, 1970.pgs. 1-16.

Week 6: Hyperstition (+ Generative HTML Workshop)

• Interview with Nick Land "On Hyperstition"

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Media Ecologies, Critical Design, and You

Week 7: The Long 20th Century of the Self

• Adam Curtis. Century of the Self. 2002.
• The Extreme Self: The Age of You, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shuman Basar, 2021. (see also The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan Quinton Fiore, 1968).

Week 8: NO CLASS - Spring Break

Week 9: Which Way, Western Man? Societies of Control, or the Post-Media Era?

• "Towards a Postmedia Era" by Felix Guattari
• Gilles Deleuze. Postscript on the Societies of Control, 1992.

Week 10: Speculative Selves (p5*js --> risograph workshop)

• Technologies of the Self, Michele Foucault, 1988
• Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, 2013. Chapters 1 and 2.

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World as Anxiety and the Speculative Media Arts

Week 11: The Space of Anxiety

• Chapter 15: “The Open Circle.” Landscapes of Fear. Yi-Fu Tuan. 1980.

Week 12: The End of Media Art; The World as Media Art

• "World as Medium" by Andrew Murphie. 2022.

Week 13: Anxiety As Process (HTML --> Generative Zine Workshop)

• In Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information. Gilbert Simondon. 2021. Introduction + "Anxiety", pg 282-285.

Week 14: No Class - Critique Week

Week 15: Final Review of Collaborative Project