STUDY PROGRAMME
Film & Animation

AFAM CODE
ABST46

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Aesthetics

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Aesthetics

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

Following an accurate historic and theoretical path, this course researches topics on the border with aesthetics, philosophy of nature, philosophical anthropology and history of technology. The idea is to get the students to observe how the links among art, nature and technology, in the past as well as in the present cultural systems, have shaped historic forms of subjectivity.

This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits = 6 ECTS.

Successful students will be able to:

• Discuss the relationship among art, nature and technology

• Analyse phenomena in the contemporary media

• Use a suitable lexicon for aesthetic analysis

• Relation between subject and the world from the classic antiquity

• Art and Technology in the Middle Age, Renaissance and Enlightenment

• Types of critical deconstruction of 20^th-Century stories

• Post-structuralism and post-modernity

This is a theoretical/project based course.

During the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects that will be developed:

• Front lectures

• Debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Individual study and research

Assessment criteria may include:

• Oral exam

Further details on the specific tests will be given by each professor.

Chosen passages from relevant texts by the following authors: Agamben, Aristotle, Bacon, Benjamin, Bergson, Derrick De Kerchove, Heidegerr, Kittler, Latour, Lucci, Minazzi, McLuhan .

More books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.