Critical Reading

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
180KCS exam 10 2 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 208 to 258 hours of self-study English, Czech academic year

Subject guarantor

Michal RATAJ

Name of lecturer(s)

Michal RATAJ, Petr ZVĚŘINA

Department

The subject provides Composition Department

Contents

Learning objective:

This is a specialised lecture designed for the summer semester of the first year of study, which is a continuation of the methodologically oriented course Research and Publication Methods. Students will learn to relate the theoretical knowledge from reading professional texts to their own artistic production and scientific work. The lectures of the instructor will be combined with seminar discussions on the texts discussed.

Thematic areas:

In the course Critical Reading of a Professional Text, important chapters from the writings of authors relevant to contemporary thinking and theoretical reflection on art will be selected for analysis. These texts may not only be texts on music, but also texts in philosophy or social sciences. The course should thus lead students to become aware of interdisciplinary intersections and relationships or to explore new paradigms of thought. During the lecture, one author/text will be discussed at a time (e.g. Adorno, Cage, Deleuze/Guattari, Eco, Foucault, Kuhn...); the aim will be to present its thought context, to introduce the concepts and terms used by the author and then to try to relate them to the musical field or to the compositional or scientific work of the students. In working with and discussing the text, students will be encouraged to actively reflect on the paradigm of thought under discussion. The selection of texts listed in the section Study Literature and Study Aids is rather indicative; specific texts will be chosen in relation to the topics of the dissertations and the students' professional focus.

Learning outcomes

To deepen students' analytical skills and critical perspective when working with professional text. Framework insight into contemporary thinking in the arts and its theoretical reflection.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

Recommended reading:

ADORNO, Theodor W. Philosophy of New Music. The Theodore of New Music: Theoretical Series. ISBN 978-80-7331-512-2.

BARTHES, Roland. The Death of the Author. In: BENDOVÁ, Helena and STRNAD, Matěj, ed. Social Sciences and Audiovisual. Prague: Publishing House of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7331-313-5.

BAUDRILLARD, Jean. The antecedents of simulacra. In: BENDOVÁ, Helena and STRNAD, Matěj, ed. Social Sciences and Audiovisual. Prague: Publishing House of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7331-313-5.

BENJAMIN, Walter. The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility. In. Literary Studies. Výbor z díla I. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2009. A Library of Modern Tradition and the Present. ISBN 978-80-7298-278-3.

CAGE, John. Silence. Prague: tranzit.cz, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87259-07-8.

DELEUZE, Gilles and GUATTARI, Félix. A Thousand Plateaus. Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87054-25-3.

ECO, Umberto. The Open Work. Form and indeterminacy in contemporary poetics. Prague: Argo, 2015. ISBN 978-80-257-1158-3.

FOUCAULT, Michel. The archaeology of knowledge. Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2002. ISBN 978-8023901245.

KUHN, Thomas Samuel. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Prague: OIKOYMENH, 1997. A library of the modern tradition and the present. ISBN 80-86005-54-2.

MANOVICH, Lev. The language of new media. Prague: Karolinum Publishing House, 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-2961-2.

MCLUHAN, Marshall. How to understand the media. The extension of the human. Prague: Odeon, 1991. Essays. ISBN 80-207-0296-2.

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A collection of texts:

BENDOVÁ, Helena and STRNAD, Matěj, ed. Social Sciences and Audiovisual. Prague: Publishing House of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7331-313-5.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Conditions for the award of credit: partial written reflection on the texts discussed, active participation in discussions related to the texts and topics discussed.

Note

Spring semester 2024 - Wednesday 17:00, Room 1022

Reading:

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I. – 21. 2.

Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer – Dialektika osvícenství (kulturní průmysl), Theodor W. Adorno – Filozofie nové hudby (Schönberg a pokrok), Theodor W. Adorno – Vers une musique informelle

II. – 6. 3.

Theodor W. Adorno – Vers une musique informelle

III. – 20. 3.

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari (I.) – Tisíc plošin (rhizom), Gilles Deleuze – Diference a opakování

IV. – 3. 4.

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari (II.) – Anti-Oedipus (tělo bez orgánů), Gilles Deleuze – Logika smyslu

V. – 17. 4.

Thomas Kuhn – Struktura vědeckých revolucí (paradigma)

VI. – 24. 5.

Texty skladatelů (John Cage – Silence, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff – publikace nakladatelství MusikTexte)

VI. – 15. 5.

Roland Barthes – Smrt autora, Jean Baudrillard – Předchůdnost simulaker, Michel Foucault – Subjekt a moc (Sborník textů Společenské vědy a audiovize)

Schedule for academic year 2024/25:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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