Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Magyar Irodalom- és Kultúratudományi Intézet
- Kód
- MA-ERA-DCLCS-S-21
- Cím
- The Anthropocene in Theory and Literature
- Tervezett félév
- Mindkét
- Meghirdetve
- 2024/25/2
- ECTS
- 8
- Nyelv
- en
- Leírás
- The class aims to provide a general understanding on the contemporary debates on posthumanism. The course focuses on how present-day subjectivities are influenced by globalization and technological developments. We study and discuss the several new forms of flexible and multiple identities, such as virtual identities, identities on social media, hybrid identities as they are coming to existence on the borderline between human body/mind and technological devices. Based on Rosi Braidotti’s views on posthumanism, we extend the notion of the Other to our natural environment including plants and animals. Following Jacques Derrida’s philosophical ideas on animals, we analyze literary and filmic representations that foreground the relationship between the human and the non-human world. Theoretical articles are always followed by the interpretations of literary or filmic representations. Some important articles by Bruno Latour will also be discussed. Apart from European and American works by Emile Zola, Virgina Woolf, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Jonze, the class will also study some Hungarian artists, writers and poets, whose works can be related to posthumanism, such as Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai, Mátyás Sirokai and Kinga Tóth.