Cultural Studies and technology

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

The course is aimed at the presentation of the method of doing cultural studies within the scope of the
contemporary technicized culture.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. Technology and Culture
2. Technological Context of the Creation of Cultural
Studies: Universities, Cities, Technologies
3. Who are We? Working Class and Cultural Studies,
Middle Class and Popculture
4. Looking Back on What has Been Missed I: Cultural
Studies and the Industrial Revolutions
5. Looking Back on What has Been Missed II: Cultural
Studies and Cybernetics
6. Cultural Studies as Method to Analyse the Impact of
Technologies on People
7. Students among Technologies or How to Analyse Your
Everyday Cybernetic
8. Case Study I: Youtube as the Source of Knowledge
about Life and U1, K1 Lecture
9. Case Study II: Researching Industrial Culture W1, W2, U1 Lecture
10. Outcome: Cultural Studies outside of the University
and inside of Technological Culture

Reading list

R. Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, London and New York 2017.1.
N. Wiener, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Cambridge Mass. 1948.2.
J. Baudrillard, Impossible Exchange, London 2011.3.
G. Anders, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, both volumes, Munchen 19804.
R. Ilnicki, After the end of theory. Why do Cultural Studies need to be reinvented?, Journal of Applied Cultural Studies,5. 2015.