Mythopoiesis Of The Digital Age: Rhetorics of the Images and the Iconological Analysis of the Contemporary Cultural Phenomena

Syllabus

21.2. Úvod, Platón: Ión, Hippias větší, Ústava (pasáže věnované umění/kráse) 28.2. Immanuel Kant: Kritika soudnosti I. 6.3.

Immanuel Kant: Kritika soudnosti II. 13.3. Hans Gadamer, Aktualita krásného 20.3.

Arthur C. Danto, The Abuse of Beauty/Transfiguration of the Commonplace/After the End of Art 27.3.

Theodor Adorno, Estetická teorie (pasáže "Ke kategoriím ošklivosti, krásy a techniky") 3.4. Umberto Eco: Struktura nevkusu/Otevřené dílo 10.4.

Georges Bataille: Řeč květin/Erotismus + Véronique Nahoum-Grappeová: Kánony ošklivosti + Baldine Saint Gironsová: Rizika ošklivosti, vytržení z poklidu krásna (Umění, krása, šeredno) 17.4. Krása a estetika OOO I.: Graham Harman 24.4.

Krása a estetika OOO II.: Timothy Morton 15.5. Shrnutí

Annotation

The course freely follows the English lecture cycle „Iconology: Art-historical and Philosophical Aspects of Reading

The Cultural Phenomena“, yet can be attended independently. The course concentrates on the analysis of the visual rhetoric of selected key cultural phenomena and on the key aspects of the visual dimension of contemporary civilization. The course proceeds in two ways: it puts the individual phenomena in their often forgotten historical or philosophical context and it exposes specific genealogies of symbolic/expressive imagery, allowing the phenomena to be analyzed far beyond their often obscuring presence. Yet by applying iconological analysis, the course also shows the common features and general nature of visual rhetoric as such, especially its manipulative and suggestive character.