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Philosophy: Ideas for Artists (PHIL70001)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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Contact information
Semester 1
Faculty of the VCA and Music Student Centre
Ground Floor, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Bldg 860)
Southbank Campus
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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A weekly seminar on modern and contemporary philosophy that introduces a range of ideas to inform the creation, practice and reception of the visual and performing arts, music and film. Under the broad headings of aesthetics, ethics, textuality, perception and embodiment, we will variously include examination of ideas in psychoanalysis, sexual difference, animism, mysticism, and contemporary debates in criticism. Particular attention will be given to specific concepts such as - the rhizome, the body without organs, the refrain, the pharmakon, the panopticon, the trace, the sexuate, and deterritorialization.
This seminar will focus on the work of a range of writers including Adorno, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Blanchot, Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Jean-Luc Nancy amongst others.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject will:
- introduce students to key philosophical concepts and thinkers;
- develop students capacity to conceptualise and articulate the underpinnings of their own research;
- enable students to contribute to and lead current debates across the arts and culture while generating new interpretations and meanings.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will have:
• the ability to communicate, cooperate and collaborate in a range of cultural contexts internationally;
• a deep awareness of and respect for cultural differences, protocols and aspirations;
• the ability to generate and promote intercultural dialogue through the arts;
• an ability to initiate research projects and develop highly innovative and experimental modes of representation and communication;
• a high level of understanding and appreciation of transnational practices across the art form;
• the capacity to interpret and translate into clear English a range of discipline-specific vocabularies and languages ;
• a capacity for innovative and original thinking marked by well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities;
• the capacity to clearly communicate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
• a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
• a capacity to cooperate and collaborate with people across all national, social and cultural divides.
Last updated: 3 November 2022