21ST CENTURY CRITICAL THEORY

FILM 6215 3.0

Term: WINTER 2020

Course Director          

Marc Couroux
couroux [at] yorku [dot] ca
ZOOM consultation hours: by appointment

Time and Location: Monday 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM, via ZOOM

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This graduate seminar is intended as an intensive investigation of current (and historical) critical theory perspectives as they might productively intersect with creative practice, at large. The overriding impulse is essentially speculative, geared towards uncovering blindspots within which new forms of praxis can be envisioned. Given the appropriation of the avant-garde by the military-industrial-corporate complex—who has long understood and readily exploited the potential for sensory redistribution which to a large extent determines what is thinkable, perceptible—it is urgent for artists not only to gain a firm grasp on the specific modalities by which power operates, but also to develop speculative practices as “positive feedback”, essential to ejecting from increasingly tight communication and control.

Areas of investigation include affect theory, anthropocene theory, critical race/black studies, decolonial theory, cybernetics, economic and political theory, feminist & trans/gender theory, neuroscience, new materialist and object-oriented philosophies and science & technology studies (among others).

Each week, students will be responsible for leading discussion around assigned readings (given the relatively small size of the class, each student will most probably be responsible for two readings).  Given that these readings form the core of the course, I expect that each of you will devote sufficient time to unraveling their various complexities with an eye on developing productive questions to animate group encounters. Students are expected to connect to a virtual classroom via Zoom every week for a 2.5 to 3 hours.

The final project will consist in a presentation, functioning at once as a speculative proposal for a future art project while being grounded in at least two of the assigned readings (and attendant associations which these will inevitably entail).

Looking forward to a FANTASTIC term!!!