The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 1
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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373MOM1 | Z | 2 | 2/T | Czech | winter |
- Subject guarantor:
- Ladislav ŠERÝ
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Ladislav ŠERÝ
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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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:
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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:
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Analytical and critical skills.
- Course contents:
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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:
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Literatura:
ADORNO, Theodore. Dialektika osvícenství, Praha, Oikoymenh, 2009
ADORNO, Theodore, HORKHEIMER, Max. Schéma masové kultury, Praha, Oikoymenh, 2009
AUMONT, Jacques, Obraz, Praha, AMU, 2005
BAUDRILLARD, Jean. Dokonalý zločin, Praha, Periplum, 2001
BERGER, Peter, LUCKMANN, Thomas. Sociální konstrukce reality, Brno, CDK, 2001
BESANCON, Alain. Zakázaný obraz, Praha, Barrister & Principal, 2013
DEBORD, Guy. Společnost spektáklu, Praha, Intu, 2007
ECO, Umberto. O zrcadlech a jiné eseje, Praha, Mladá fronta, 2002
FLUSSER, Vilém. Do universa technických obrazů. Praha, OSPVU, 2001
FOUCAULT, Michel. Dohlížet a trestat, Praha, Dauphin, 2000
JOST, Francois. Realita/Fikce. Říše klamu. Praha, AMU, 2006
LIPPMANN, Walter. Veřejné mínění. Praha, Portál, 2015
VIRILIO, Paul. Estetika mizení, Praha, Pavel Mervart, 2010
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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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:
- Note:
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- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all AMU students
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
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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 Tue Wed Thu Fri Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel Mon 15:40–17:15 Ladislav ŠERÝ Učebna 7
Lažanský palácpřednášková par. 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans: