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The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
373MOM1 Z 2 2/T Czech winter
Subject guarantor:
Ladislav ŠERÝ
Name of lecturer(s):
Ladislav ŠERÝ
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

An introduction of students to modern and post-modern thought about the role of an image, media and power in creating a social reality

Mode of study:

Lecture linked to or followed by moderated and non-moderated discussion and analyses of media, artistic or life's work examples.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Analytical and critical skills.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

A broadly based critique of image, media and power originating, particularly from philosophical and sociological points of view and investigations of fabricated truth, the dichotomy of reality and fiction, simulation and metaphorization of thought, representation and virtualization of so-called reality. The image as part of consumer culture. Spectacle as a camouflage of general insecurity. Advertisement as a manifestation of the ideolization of the social space. The media psychosis of threat. The real-time of digital networks, Technology as the tool of domination and power as a technological control over persona energy resorces.

Recommended or required reading:

Theodor Adorno, Schéma masové kultury, Oikoymenh, Praha 2009

Jean Baudrillard, Dokonalý zločin, Periplum, Praha 2001

Guy Debord, Společnost spektáklu, Intu, Praha 2007

Vilém Flusser, Do universa technických obrazů. OSPVU, Praha 2001

Michel Foucault, Dohlížet a trestat, Dauphin, Praha 2000

Paul Virilio. Estetika mizení, Pavel Mervart, Praha 2010

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Class

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit will be awarded based on participation in class and submission of the paper on a proposed topic which the student defends in an interview.

Course web page:
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Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
místnost 344
Učebna 7
(Lažanský palác)
ŠERÝ L.
15:40–17:15
(přednášková par. 1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Mon 15:40–17:15 ŠERÝ L. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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