Sebastien Fanzun: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020 |
| Name | Dr. Sebastien Fanzun |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0302-00L | Literature and Technology  Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 35 | 3 credits | 2S | A. Kilcher, S. Fanzun | |
| Abstract | There are many references between literature and technology. This is already shown by terms such as "technology", "apparatus" and "automaton", which address procedures in art. Particularly since industrialisation, literature has been negotiating the mechanisation of the world. The seminar will discuss the history of technology in literature and the critical literary negotiation. | ||||
| Learning objective | - Basic concepts of literary theory as techniques of literature - Basic terms of the philosophy and history of technology - Critical analysis of modern history of technology in the mirror of modern literature | ||||
| Content | At first glance, literature and technology seem to be conceivably alien to each other: the purposeless intellectual world of fictional imagination is opposed by the purpose-oriented processes of machine production. A closer look reveals, however, that there are multiple references between the two. On a theoretical level, this is due to the original meaning of the term "technology" as "art", whereby the literature can be more precisely defined as "linguistic art" and can be differentiated through the development of writing and media techniques into the digital age. Other technical terms such as “machine”, “apparatus” and “machine” also imply far-reaching aesthetic aspects. Yet the connection between literature and technology is not only justifiable theoretically (or aesthetically), but also historically. Literature negotiates the increasing mechanization of the world, especially since industrialization, be it affirmative or critical. Literature thus proves to be a reflection medium of the technical age. In the seminary, the technical history of literature is examined on the one hand, and the literary negotiation of the history of technology in the age of technology on the other. | ||||