Research Seminar (584-0-20)

Topic

Media Epistemology

Instructors

Scott Curtis

Meeting Info

Annie May Swift Hall 109: Mon 3:00PM - 5:50PM

Overview of class

This seminar examines how moving images produce, authorize, and contest knowledge — not only scientific knowledge but also the everyday categories through which bodies, processes, and populations come to be known and naturalized. Topics might include scientific research and classroom films, documentary cinema and legal forensic evidence, diagnostic imagery, process genres in industrial and ethnographic cinema, and online tutorials. Readings will draw from the history of science, science and technology studies, and critical media theory, with particular attention to recent work on epistemic images and the genres through which moving images make the world legible. The seminar treats the constructive questions of historical epistemology and the critical questions of ideology and circulation as two sides of a single problem.

Class Materials (Required)

All materials will be on Canvas free of charge.

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: REASON: Pre-registration is not allowed for this class. Please try again during regular registration.