Seminar: Technology and Infrastructure - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Technology and Infrastructure
Course number	BA: LHGZ
Semester	WS 2015/16
Current number of participants	4
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Thursday, 15.10.2015 14:15 - 15:45
Performance record	Studienleistung: Active participation based on the readings of the seminar. More will be announced at the first meeting. Modulleistung: Final paper (Seminararbeit) Besonderheiten: This course is given in English and all requirements need to be in English as well.
Studiengänge (für)	BA Ethnologie 60/90
SWS	2

Lehrende

• Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg

Rooms and times

No room preference

Thursday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly(14x)

Fields of study

• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften

Comment/Description

In this seminar we discuss role, which technology and infrastructure play in ordering practices. We try to clarify the concepts offered by different authors and pay particular attention to distinctions between apparatus (Foucault), assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari), infrastructure (Hughes), and institution (Weber). This debate is politically important since the most burning contemporary matters of concern – climate change, global health, global hunger, and increasing inequalities – are closely related to techno-scientific problems and solution and to infrastructures.

Recommended Reading: Hughes, Thomas 1983. Networks of power. Electrification in Western society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.