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SoSe 2021 - SoSe 2025

English

Politics of Machines

6

Christensen, Michelle

Benotet

Portfolioprüfung

English

Zugehörigkeit


Fakultät I

Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte

31319201 FG Open Science

Prüfungsausschuss Fakultät I

Kontakt


H 61

Conradi, Florian

michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de

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Lernergebnisse

This seminar provides an introduction into analytical and conceptual methods such as design- and art-based research and critical making, which will be applied within the discussion of the politics of design and technology. Within an interdisciplinary setting, students will learn how to use these methods to formulate critical perspectives, reflect between theory and practice, and to make their arguments intelligible through the translation into a design project.

Lehrinhalte

In a state of ‘ontological crisis’, all boundaries between human and machine, nature and culture, and the organic and inorganic have been severely blurred. These are times of curious contrivances, novel natures, inescapable automation and posthuman performances - where human and nonhuman find themselves being entwined, meshed and muddled into new unwitting entanglements. But from biased machine-learning to surveillance capitalism and digital colonisation - what power-structures are implicitly and covertly being embedded into these technologies? When are we still at the centre of the social algorithm, and when do we become extensions of the extensions that we built? Do we have to raise a discussion about political systems of things - about ‘ubiquitous capitalism’, ‘algorithmic aristocracy’ or ‘object-mediated democracy’? In this weekly class we will discuss ethical, social and political implications of technology with a focus on ‘automation’ versus ‘autonomy’. We will practice and formulate critical perspectives on the politics of machines, discovering novel phenomena and shadowing the material regimes of power that we ourselves live within - hindering and compromising personal devices and thus conducts, in order to uncover latent power structures embedded in everyday life. Furthermore, drawing on the approaches of research-through-design and critical making, we will prototype possibilities and provocations, integrating critical thinking with critical fabrication.

Modulbestandteile

Compulsory area

Die folgenden Veranstaltungen sind für das Modul obligatorisch:

LehrveranstaltungenArtNummerTurnusSpracheSWS ISIS VVZ
Politics of MachinesSEMSoSeen4

Arbeitsaufwand und Leistungspunkte

Politics of Machines (SEM):

AufwandbeschreibungMultiplikatorStundenGesamt
Attendance15.04.0h60.0h
Pre/post processing15.08.0h120.0h
180.0h(~6 LP)
Der Aufwand des Moduls summiert sich zu 180.0 Stunden. Damit umfasst das Modul 6 Leistungspunkte.

Beschreibung der Lehr- und Lernformen

Locating and formulating an interdisciplinary critique -developing a topic based on discovering and describing a cultural phenomenon, performing an autoethnographic social intervention and translating main findings into an experimental design project. Presenting and discussing main insights with the class, accompanied by a final oral presentation and a brief written reflection.

Voraussetzungen für die Teilnahme / Prüfung

Wünschenswerte Voraussetzungen für die Teilnahme an den Lehrveranstaltungen:

Attendance is mandatory. In the course of the seminar, students are expected to give presentations on their various steps - topic development, social intervention and design project. At the end of the seminar, they submit a design project and a short written reflection, as well as carry out an oral presentation reflecting analytically on their overall process.

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Abschluss des Moduls

Benotung

Benotet

Prüfungsform

Portfolio examination

Art der Portfolioprüfung

100 Punkte insgesamt

Sprache(n)

English

Prüfungselemente

NamePunkteKategorieDauer/Umfang
Final Oral Presentation20oralKeine Angabe
Research and Design Project60flexibleKeine Angabe
Written Reflection20writtenKeine Angabe

Notenschlüssel

Notenschlüssel »Notenschlüssel 4: Fak I, Fak VII«

Gesamtpunktzahl1.01.31.72.02.32.73.03.33.74.0
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Prüfungsbeschreibung (Abschluss des Moduls)

Attendance is mandatory. In the course of the seminar, students are expected to give presentations on their various steps - topic development, social intervention and design project. At the end of the seminar, they submit a design project and a short written reflection, as well as carry out an oral presentation reflecting analytically on their overall process.

Dauer des Moduls

Für Belegung und Abschluss des Moduls ist folgende Semesteranzahl veranschlagt:
1 Semester.

Dieses Modul kann in folgenden Semestern begonnen werden:
Sommersemester.

Maximale teilnehmende Personen

Dieses Modul ist nicht auf eine Anzahl Studierender begrenzt.

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