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Theories of New Media
Semester 3
Module IV:
Theories of New Media
Media
theories examine the reciprocal relationship between media and its
audience. The development of print media and digital media is associated
with the development of consumerism and commercialism. Media theory
emphasizes the fact that media cannot exist outside the ideological
constraints and become constitutive of the very ideology it re-presents.
- Prescribed Essay
Theories
of New Media
The
contemporary concerns of new media theory can be found in the investigation of
the electronic media based on interactivity. With the studies on digital media, social media, cyber punk novels and
Cyber Theory, the issues of self, identity, community,
reality/virtuality are dealt with.
I.Schools of Media Theory
I.Schools of Media Theory
· Marshall Mc Luhan- Understanding Media, The
Medium is the Message
· Raymond Williams- Television: Technology and
Cultural Form
· Baudrillard- Simulation-simulacra- The Gulf War
Did Not Take Place
· Zygmunt Bauman- Liquid Modernity, 44 Letters from a
Liquid Modern World
II. Major Concepts
A-Life
Artificial
Intelligence
Blogging
Community
Culture jamming
Cyber PunkCyber Culture
Cyber Space,
Cybernetics
cyberfeminism
cyborg
Digital Divide
Domain Name
dot.com
email
Encryption
G3
Gameboy
Hacker
Hactivist
HTML
Hyperreality
Informatics
Liminality
Liquid
Modernity
Narrowcasting
Netiquette
Netizen
Network Society
Old
media/New media
Online/Offline
life/Cultures
Posthumanism/Post-biology
Pornography
Public Sphere
Virtual
reality (VR)
· Michael Benedikt
· Sherry Turkle
· Maria Bakardjieva
· Manuel Castells
· Donna Harraway
· Lelia Green
· David Bell
· Douglas Thomas
IV. Major Works
· Michael Benedikt- Cyborg Manifesto
· Sherry Turkle –Life on Screen
· Manuel Castells- The Rise of Network Society
· Lelia Green- Technoculture
· David Bell- Cyberculture Theorists, Science,
Technology Culture
· David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (eds). The
Cybercultures Reader
· Douglas Thomas- Hacker Culture
V. Sample ReadingPostcolonial Theories
Semester 3
Module III:
Postcolonial Criticism
Prescribed Essay
Edward W. Said. “Introduction”. Orientalism. UK: Penguin. 1900. Pp.1-28.
I. Schools of Postcolonial Thought
II. MajorConcepts
IV. Major Works
Module III:
Postcolonial Criticism
The
analysis of racism and ethnocentrism in texts from the past may have
relevance to the ways we live our lives today. Textual analysis of
race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality can serve as a starting point for
positive forms of social change in the future.
Prescribed Essay
Edward W. Said. “Introduction”. Orientalism. UK: Penguin. 1900. Pp.1-28.
Postcolonialism
attempts to understand the political, social, cultural and psychological
operations of the colonialist and anticolonialist ideologies. Postcolonial
theory analyses the ways in which a text reinforces or resists colonialism’s
oppressive ideology.
I. Schools of Postcolonial Thought
· Phase I – Britain,
America, Canada, Australia
· Phase II – India,
Africa, Latin America
· Post Orientalist Historiography
· Subaltern Studies
· Postcolonial Feminist Thought
II. MajorConcepts
- Aboriginal/Indigenous People
- Abrogation
- Appropriation
- Authentic/Authenticity
- Binarism
- Centre/Margin
- Periphery
- Civilized/ Barbaric
- Decolonization
- Diaspora
- Discourse
- Dislocation
- Essentialism
- Euro-centrism
- Exotic/Exoticism
- Hegemony
- Hybridity
- Imperialism
- Liminality
- Marginality
- Mimicry
- Miscegenation
- Modernity
- Nation/Nationalism
- Native/ Nativism
- Orality
- Orientalism
- Orient/ Occident
- Other/ Otherness
- Neo-Orientalism
- Savage/Civilized
- Subject
- Surveillance
- Third World
- Fourth World
III. Major Figures
· Albert Memmi
· Leopold Sedar Senghor
· Mohandas K. Gandhi
· Aime Cesaire
· Edward Said
· Homi Bhabha
· Gayathri Spivak
· Benita Parry
· Benedict Anderson
· Robert Young
· Leela Gandhi
· Simon During
· Gayathri Vishwanathan
· Ashish Nandy
· Talal Azad
· Aamir Amin
· Arif Dirlik
· Ngugi wa Thiong’o
· Gyan Prakash
· Ranajit Guha
· Partha Chatterjee
· David Arnold
· Gyanendra Pandey
· Dipesh Chakrabarthy
· bell hooks
· Sara Suleri
· Sandra Harding
· Trinh- T. Minh Ha
· Ella Shohat
· Kumkum Sangari
IV. Major Works
· Aime Cesaire – Discourse on Colonialism
· Frantz Fanon- Black Skin White Masks, The
Wretched of the Earth
· Albert Memmi- The Colonizer and the
Colonized
· Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind
Edward Siad- Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
Edward Siad- Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
· Homi Bhabha- Location of Culture, Nation and
Narration
· Leela Gandhi- Postcolonial Theory: A Critical
Introduction, Affective Communities
· Robert Young- Postcolonialism: A Historical Introduction
· Gayatri Spivak- Can the Subaltern Speak
·
Elleke Boehmer- Colonial and
Postcolonial Literatures
Ania Loomba - Colonialism/ Postcolonialism
V. Websites
Ania Loomba - Colonialism/ Postcolonialism
V. Websites
VI. Sample Reading
suite101.com/…/caliban-and-post-colonialism-in-shakespeares-the-tempest-a261516
Theories of New Historicism
Semester 3
Module II:
Theories of New Historicism
V. Sample Reading
Module II:
Theories of New Historicism
History
is not linearly progressive and is not reducible to the activities of
prominent individuals. The mundane activities and conditions of everyday
life can tell us much about the belief systems of a time period.
Literary texts are connected in complex ways to the time period in which
they were created and systems of social power are both reflected in and
reinforced by such texts.
Prescribed Essay
New Historicism focusses on
the historicity of literary texts and the textuality of history. The New
Historicists believe in the impossibility of objective analysis of history. New
Historicism is thus a critique of apriori systems of knowledge. The reading of
a literary text or culture is not definitive.
I. Schools of New Historicist Thought
· Foucauldian Studies
· Subaltern Studies
· Feminist New Historicist Studies
II. MajorConcepts
·
Critiques of
historical reason
·
Discipline
·
Discourse
·
Discursive formations
·
Episteme
·
Textuality
·
Intertextuality
·
Historicity
· Historiogrphy
· Archaelogy
· Discursive Practise
· Episteme
· Geneology
· Gaze
· Historical Apriori
· Heterotopia
· Surveillance
· Power
· Knowledge
· Phenemenology
· Repressive Hypothesis
· Subjectivity
III. Major Figures
IV. Major Works
·
Michel
Foucault-
The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences, Language, Counter- memory, Practice
The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences, Language, Counter- memory, Practice
Madness and Civilization
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel
Birth of the Clinic
The Order of Things
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Vol. III: The Care of the Self
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel
Birth of the Clinic
The Order of Things
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Vol. III: The Care of the Self
·
Stephen Greenblatt- Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Stephen Greenblatt- Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
·
Pierre Bourdieu – Outline
of a Theory of Practice, The Field of Cultural Production
V. Sample Reading
prezi.com/xhh1jf-_d-qr/great-gatsby-new-historicism
Marxist Theories
Semester 3
Module I:
Marxist Theories
Prescribed Essay: Raymond Williams. “Literature.” Marxism and Literature. USA: Oxford UP, 1978. Pp. 45-54.
Module I:
Marxist Theories
Literary
and other cultural texts are ideological in background, form and
function and the production and consumption of texts reflects class
ideologies. An attention to the material conditions of life and a
critical engagement with our attitudes about those conditions are
essential for achieving positive social change.
Prescribed Essay: Raymond Williams. “Literature.” Marxism and Literature. USA: Oxford UP, 1978. Pp. 45-54.
Marxism accentuates
the notion that all human events and productions are embedded within the
social, historical and economic contexts. The ideologies and norms which exist
in our society depend on the interests of those who control the modes of
production.
As a “politicized
form of historiography” cultural materialism acts as a connecting link between
Marxism and PostModernism. As a critical method Cultural Materialism combines
an attention to the historical context, theoretical method, political
commitment and textual analysis.
I. Schools of
Marxist Thought
· Marxism –Leninism
· Maoism
· Western Marxism
· Structural Marxism
· Neo-Marxism
· The Frankfurt
School
· Cultural Marxism
· Indian Marxism
II. Major Concepts
·
Alienation
·
Base structure/Super
Structure
·
Hegemony
·
Bourgeoisie
·
Capitalism
·
Critical
Realism
·
Culture Industry
·
Dialectical
Materialism
·
Epistemology
·
False Consciousness
·
Fetishism
·
Ideology
·
Means of
production
·
Mechanical
reproduction
·
Mimesis
·
Neo Marxism
·
Post modernism
·
Late capitalism
·
Proletariat
·
Socialist Realism
·
Soviet Marxism
·
Surplus Value
·
Theory of Reflection
·
Use Value
·
Western Marxism
·
Traditional Marxism
III. Major Figures
· Karl Marx
· Friedrich Engels
· Georg Lukacs
· Bertolt Brecht
· Max Horkheimer
· Theodor Adorno
· Herbert Marcuse
· Walter Benjamin
· Lucien Goldman
· Louis Althusser
· Pierre Macherey
· Raymond Williams
· Terry Eagleton
· Fredric Jameson
· Ernesto Laclau
· Chantal Mouffe
· Zygmunt Bauman
· Aijaz Ahmed
· Stuart Hall
· Antonio Negri
· Michael Hardt
. Slavoj Zizek
IV.
Major Works
·
Karl Marx, Friedrich
Engels- Communist Manifesto
·
Karl Marx- Das
Kapital, German Ideology, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
·
Friedrich Engels- The
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
·
Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin- Theory of Reflection
·
Georgi V. Plekhanov -
Fundamental Problems
· Georg Lukacs - The Historical Novel, The
Meaning of Contemporary Realism, History and Class Consciousness
· Bertolt Brecht- Epic theatre, Debate on Classical
Heritage
· Walter Benjamin- “Work of Art in
the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
· Max Horkheimer- Critique of
Instrumental Reason
· Herbert Marcuse- Soviet
Marxism: A Critical Analysis
· Lucien Goldman- The Hidden God
· Pierre Macherey- A Theory of Literary Production
· Theodor Adorno- Aesthetic Theory-
Culture Industry- Negative Dialectics
· Jurgen Habermas- The Theory of
Communicative Action
· Antonio Gramsci- Prison Notebooks
· Christopher Caudwell- Illusion
and Reality
·
E.P. Thompson- The
Making of the English Working Class
· Louis Althusser- Lenin and Philosophy and Other
Essays
· Terry Eagleton- Marxism and Literary
Criticism
· Fredric Jameson- Postmodernism, or the Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism
· Raymond Williams- Marxism and Literature
· Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield- Political
Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism
V. Sample Reading
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