180.521 (19W) Memory in digits: Bernard Stiegler’s account of the ‘industrialisation of memory’

Wintersemester 2019/20

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First course session
18.10.2019 09:00 - 16:00 V.1.34 On Campus
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Lecturer
Course title german Memory in digits: Bernard Stiegler’s account of the ‘industrialisation of memory’
Type Lecture - Course (continuous assessment course )
Hours per Week 2.0
ECTS credits 6.0
Registrations 17 (30 max.)
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
Course begins on 18.10.2019
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Course content

The notion that the culture industry translates any experience into algorithms and projecting back to humans as if there is no other memory. Taking its critical beginning from this paradox the seminar will look at the question of memory in the age of digital recording.

Memory is considered as the trace of the lived experience and perceived something recorded, like in writing, filming and other means. The endless recording of memory is an important part of any technology starting from the alphabetic writing to the recent digital transformations. Through the exploration of Bernard Stiegler’s notion of the ‘industrialisation of memory’ the seminar will address this question with the specific focus on the cinema in the age of the proliferation of digital technologies. The questions of “available brain-time”, robots, drones, hidden surveillance cameras and their role in translating human memory into the machines data will be questioned in the mode of critical theory. 

Film Cashe by Michael Hanecke will also be questioned as the case study.

Literature

Pieter Lemmens, This system does not produce pleasure anymore. An interview with Bernard Stiegler, https://www.academia.edu/923459/This_system_does_not_produce_pleasure_anymore._An_interview_with_Bernard_Stiegler

Zeigam Azizov, The ‘Cut-n-mix’ Culture: The Impossibilities of Production in New Media, https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/

21.11.2018

Examination information

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Examination methodology

The outcome of the seminar will be an essay written by participants.

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Position in the curriculum

  • Master's degree programme Media, Communications & Culture (SKZ: 841, Version: 09W.1)
    • Subject: Medien, Kultur und sozialer Wandel (Compulsory subject)
      • Vorlesung mit Kurs ( 2.0h VK / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 180.521 Memory in digits: Bernard Stiegler’s account of the ‘industrialisation of memory’ (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)

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