IPLUSO 12228

Image and Thought

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  The discipline promotes the critical analysis of the image within the scope of visual culture and visual theory, articulating reading, writing and debate around its meanings, uses and historical, political and social frameworks.  
• ProgramaProgramme

  Image . Definitions (idea, eidos, imago, phantasma, phantasia, imagination) . Visual and non-visual image: visuality in the definition of the image . Image, language, and mimesis. Rhetoric, poetics, semiotics, and visual theory. Representation . Definitions (presence, presentation, representation). Representation in the definition of postmodernism and subsequent concepts . What is the drawing? Art and art systems. Drawing as technique, discipline, gesture, and desire. Differentiation between the concepts of figure and formative force Aesthetic and Political . Differentiation between politics and political. The neutral image and the contaminated image: aesthetic beliefs and political agencies . Non-representation theories. The unrepresentable and the desire for non-mediation. Testimony and representation of trauma (holocaust, feminism, blackness, diaspora, postcolonial studies, place of speech, fiction, and document). Examples, polemics and case studies.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  Problematicize the character and conceptualization of the image. Provide students with exposure to issues, authors, and schools of thought that help them critically engage with a set of texts within the scope of visual culture and visual theory, and develop interpretative skills regarding the reception, production, and nature of images. Students should learn to contextualize these references, interpret objects with nuance, dismantle polarizations, articulate arguments coherently, and conduct research through oral discussion and peer writing. An introduction to thinking about and through images will be covered, including their political context, cultural patterns, and historical antecedents (relations and reactions to the Western/Oriental context, semiotics and linguistics, capitalist system and class structure, feminisms and gender studies, post-colonialism), attempting to understand how these relations and patterns shape the way images are conceived, produced, and received.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Benjamin, W. (2010). A obra de arte na era da sua reprodução mecanizada. ESTC Berger, J.(2013). Modos de Ver. Antígona Debord, G. (2021). A Sociedade do Espectáculo. Antígona Didi-Huberman, G. (2012). Imagens Apesar de tudo. KKYM Kilomba, G. (2019). Memórias da plantação. Orfeu Negro Manghani, S. (2012) Image Studies, Theory and Practice. Routledge Mbembe, A. (2017). Crítica da Razão Negra. Orfeu Negro Mirzoeff, N. (ed.) (2001). The Visual Culture Reader. Routledge Mondzain, M. J. (2015). Homo Spectator. Ver > Fazer Ver. Orfeu Negro Mondzain, M. J. (2017). A Imagem Pode Matar? Nova Vega Nancy, J. L. (2022). O Prazer no Desenho. Documenta Rancière, J. (2022). O espectador emancipado. Orfeu Negro
• MetodologiaMethodology

  The teaching methodology of this curricular unit is based on a theoretical approach, through the exposure of content in classes, with the help of audiovisual materials, bibliography, and access to support materials previously prepared by the teacher (bibliography, audiovisual material, suggestion of events). These materials will be delivered via the professor's institutional e-mail and later discussed in class. A level of involvement and discussion appropriate to the topics and level of studies in question is expected. Practical exercises will also be carried out focused on the themes proposed in class, with the aim of developing critical thinking skills also in writing: an oral presentation (20 minutes, conference format with discussion) of the theme proposed to work on in the written essay; writing a written essay. Time will also be reserved for face-to-face and e-mail tutorial guidance.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não