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Presentation
Presentation
Taking into account the way in which the technological connections of the digital paradigm constitute the main infrastructure of possibility of experience, we seek to trace the conceptual and historical genealogy of this framework, questioning the notion of connection, both from a material and cultural point of view, and extending this debate through what has been thematized as a new ecology in which the notion of the anthropomorphic social enters into crisis and a new horizontal ontology emerges that comprises human and non-human actants.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Doctorate | Semestral | 7.5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULP1963-22471
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Reticular epistemologies:
1.1 - The constellation as a model
1.2 – Typologies and reticular materialities: grids, maps and libraries
2. Genealogy of technological connections
2.1 - From the atomic bomb to the electronic cloud (T. H. Hu)
2.3 - Post-internet and elemental / atmospheric media
3. Digital as a total architecture
3.1 - Ubiquitous and planetary computing, big data, internet of things (A. Galloway and B. Bratton)
3.2 - Communication beyond semantics: the protocol and the radical codification of experience
4. Connections and assembly
4.1 - Human and non-human actors, horizontal ontologies and the “democracy of things” (L. Bryant)
4.2 - Vibrant matters: beyond human apprehension
4.3 - Political and technological agency in the anthropocene
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Objectives
Objectives
Students should be able to problematize the idea of ¿¿connection, as a concept and as a material structure, in a broad and genealogical context that encompasses it from the appearance of distance technologies in the late 19th century to the present of digital technologies. From telegraph to digital, it is important to identify and discuss different stages of the idea of ¿¿planeterization. This path, supported by theoretical texts and case studies, will serve as support for a more detailed discussion of the impact, in the contemporary experience, of connections through its digital form. This latest configuration of the theme of connections points to new technical and cultural forms, from the idea of ¿¿ubiquitous computing as a total architecture, to new vitalities and intelligences that are projected on technical objects and that recover ancestral animist perspectives.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Use of reports from international organizations, namely the International Panel for Climate Change, as case studies to be worked on by students in conjunction with theoretical problematizations.
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References
References
Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press
Bogalheiro, M. (2018). "O fim da natureza: paradoxos e incertezas na era do Antropoceno e do Geo-construtivismo." Em Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens - Cidades do Futuro, nº 48. Lisboa: ICNOVA
Borges, Eli; Di Felice, M. (2018). “The Post-Virtual Reality: From the Interactive Experience to the Connective Experience”. Em Lecture Notes of the Institute of Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Suíça: Springer International Publishing
Bratton, B. (2015) The Stack – On Software and Sovereignty. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press
Di Felice, M.; Franco, T. C. (2018). “Connective Ecologies: Digital Animism, Computerized Ecology, and Matter in a Network. Em Palabra Clave, v. 21
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
