COML 6920

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COML 6920
Aesthetics and Politics of Touch

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

The course will consider the aesthetic and politics of "touch" in dialogue with critical, artistic innovations.. Emphasizing differentiations between interactivity and immersion in art and theory, the course will discuss renewed critical emphasis on the legacy of phenomenology (from Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze to affect theory) in dialogue with recent writings on global critical race and sexual theory (Mbembe, Stoever, Ganguly, Lalu, Moten, Spillers, Cardenas).  Designed as an archive-based course, students will be invited to shape the second part of the syllabus around works featured in the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and in the 2018 CCA Biennial on "Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival" with the aim of staging a theory/practice final exhibit/performance based on conceptual approaches to "touch."

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6725, PMA 6920

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17247 COML 6920   SEM 101

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