Seminar: Technology and Infrastructure - Details

Seminar: Technology and Infrastructure - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Technology and Infrastructure
Veranstaltungsnummer BA: LHGZ
Semester WS 2015/16
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 4
Heimat-Einrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 15.10.2015 14:15 - 15:45
Leistungsnachweis 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

Räume und Zeiten

Keine Raumangabe
Donnerstag: 14:15 - 15:45, wöchentlich(14x)

Kommentar/Beschreibung

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.