Sociology and Criminology
Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Aut)
Module code: L2905A
Level 6
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Portfolio
This module utilises a variety of arts-based methodologies for you to encounter different ways of knowing and being in the capitalocene. Through high-theory, citizen science, the archive and artivism, we critique modernity’s metaphysics of presence, especially as it manifests in social science’s fetishisation of empiricism.
Through a variety of phenomenological registers (weird, eerie, sublime etc), you’ll trouble our epistemic infrastructures so you may re-think our past, present and future. Topics may include:
- thinking phenomenologically across Temporalities – Histories – Hauntologies
- hauntology
- time is out of joint
- capitalist sorcery
- haunted intimacies (policy, archives)
- glitch (databases)
- The Matrix (film)
- soundscapes (audio)
- landscapes (photography)
- map-making (AI).
Module learning outcomes
- Assimilate and apply material from recent academic research (and where relevant, personal experience), to illustrate the theoretical approaches covered in the module
- Demonstrate an ability to research independently, exercise critical judgement, and write cogently and persuasively
- Create a portfolio of learning utilising a range of multi-media methods introduced throughout this module
- Critically evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of works that address social science’s fetishization of empiricism.