Sumários

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13 Março 2025, 12:30 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Warm-up: Historiophoty (Hayden White) – part 2 (Marco della Motta)
 I. Technologies for seeing, ‘machines of the visible’ 2: Photography.The centrality of vision in the production of meaning. Sign, signifier, signified and myth (Barthes). The myth of photographic truth, disciplinary knowledge (Foucault 1977), and the disciplinary frame (Tagg 2009) - the case of mug shots.


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6 Março 2025, 12:30 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Concepts as tools (students' presentations). Warm-up: Historiophoty (Hayden White) – part 1 (Marco della Motta)


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27 Fevereiro 2025, 12:30 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Warm-up: "Chthulus and Plastic Bodies: Trans-corporeality in 'An Ecosystem of Excess'” (Ayşe Ceren Öner). I.  Technologies for seeing, ‘machines of the visible’ 1: looking/seeing/showing. Practices of looking/seeing/showing: ‘Image, Power and Politics’ (Sturken and Cartwright 2001). Concepts as tools (students' presentations). The visual as a site of theorisation.


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20 Fevereiro 2025, 12:30 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Thematic nodes of the course: I. Technologies for seeing, ‘machines of the visible’ (JL Comolli); and II. Public surfaces, public spaces; the archive. Assessment and assignments. Guidelines for class presentations/student-led discussions and final projects.  What is a visual essay? Concepts as tools.


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13 Fevereiro 2025, 12:30 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Course description and aims. Learning outcomes. Conceptual and methodological coordinates. Introducing ourselves in the classroom: ‘Where do you know from?’ (Zuroski 2020).