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Philosophy of the Digital Image – Course Outline This 8-week course runs Tuesdays 26 Jan - 15 March 2016, 18.30 - 20.00 Philosophy of the Digital Image, led by Dr Daniel Rubinstein, follows the interlaced paths of contemporary philosophy and photography. Starting from Martin Heidegger’s seminal lecture The Age of the World Picture, it traces the digital image and the associated ideas of the network, big data, snapchat and selfies through the works of Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze & Guattari, Mandelbrot and Haraway among others. The course will aim to propose a visual framework for thinking philosophically about the photographic image and for thinking photographically about philosophy. The course is structured around a weekly reading of a key text that will be explored and illuminated during the lecture that will last approximately one hour. The second part of every session will be dedicated to discussion and questions and answers. OUTLINE WEEK 1: WHY PHILOSOPHY? Introduction to the series Photography: Visual regime of modernity The inherent complexity of the digital image The interlacing of technology and philosophy WEEK 2: THE CONCEPT OF REPRESENTATION Heidegger: The Age of the World Picture WEEK 3: THE CONCEPT OF DATA Reading: Gilles Deleuze: Postscript on Societies of Control WEEK 4: THE CONCEPT OF EVENT Reading: J-F Lyotard: ‘The Sublime and the Avant-Guard’ WEEK 5: INTRODUCTION TO A NON-FASCIST LIFE Reading: Michel Foucault: Preface in Anti-Oedipus (xi-xv) Watching: Leni Riefenstahl Triumph of the Will (1935) WEEK 6: THE CONCEPT OF REPETITION Deleuze and Guattari Of the Refrain in The Thousand Platueaus (310-351) WEEK 7: ALGORITHMS, UNDECIDABILITY, CHAOS Read: Luciana Parisi, Incomputable objects in the age of the Algorithm’ in ‘Contagious Architecture’ (1-81) WEEK 8: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE POST-HUMAN Read: Claire Colebrook ‘Framing the End of the Species: Images without Bodies’ in ‘Death of the Post-Human’ (9-29)

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