Class Visual Culture

Since the 1980s, the notion of visual culture has been imposed. Superficially, visual culture would be concerned with the objects-products of optical machines, such as photography, video, television, film, graphic and digital images, etc. But this mere enumeration reveals that visual culture is first and foremost a new problem. In fact, following the convergence operated by digital, the way we perceived and analyzed images, separately or in genres, such as photography or cinema, video, etc., changed. It is a process that articulates machines, devices, images and bodies in complex apparatuses that are an essential part of the constitution of experience.

1. Introduction: What is visual culture? 1.1. Visual culture as a problem
1.2. The visual culture in debate
2. Image as a problem  2.1. Images and original division of the 'real'
2.2. Walter Benjamin and the technical take off of the images
2.3. Aby Warburg And The Pathos Images
2.4 The Guy Debord Show Society
3. The Age of the Image 3.1. Iconology Crisis
3.2. The epoch of the symbolic and space organization
3.3. The grotesque becoming of images
4. Decentralization and fragmentation of the world image in modernity 4.1. Modern optical regimes (Crary)
4.2. Real perception change and vision control
4.3. From phantasmagoria to virtual reality
5. About contemporary images 5.1. Image and Cinematism
5.2. Image Telematics 

The evaluation may be continuous or timely. In the second case, through a test covering the whole matter. In the case of continuous assessment, involving participation in classes and a clear reading of compulsory texts, students must choose 4 of the texts mentioned (at least 1 of each part of the program, not including the Introduction) that they will do a small (maximum 2 pages), the average being formed from the 3 highest notes.

José Bragança de Miranda: Corpo e Imagem, Lisboa, Vega, 2017, 3ed. 

Nicholas Mirzoeff: "What is visual Culture?", Journal of Visual Culture. 

Marquard Smith: 'Visual Culture Studies: History, Theory, Practice' 

Walter Benjamin: "A obra de arte na época da sua reprodutibilidade técnica", Trad. João Barrento. 

Giorgio Agamben: 'Aby Warburg e a ciência sem nome' antecedido de Menmosine de Warburg. 

Marie-José Mondzain: "Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands" in Hypatia, Vol. 15, No. 4, Contemporary French Women Philosophers. (Autumn, 2000), pp. 58-76 

Jonathan Crary: "Techniques of the Observer" in October, Vol. 45. (Summer, 1988), pp. 3-35. Paul Virilio: "The Vision Machine", Paris, Galillée
Lev Manovich, 'Instagram Platform as a Medium'.
Mitchell Schwarzer: 2Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media", MIT press.