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The metaphor of text has been central to studies of the city and culture. Shifting from the metaphor to the city, the course investigates how textual practices and written signs shape and inform contemporary semiotic landscapes. In focusing on specific urban texts (signs, graffiti, logos) and their cultural contexts, it seeks critical reflection on linguistic and cultural assumptions embedded in the metaphor of text in relation to its urban other. [log-in]
Texts, in their material forms, visual manifestations, and technological transformations, constitute, reflect and affect cultural practices. The course examines representational and expressive roles of written signs and textual practices in relation to their varied con-texts of display, production and reading. In looking at the Chinese writing and graphic tradition, the course offers a reflection on Western spatiality and visibility of writing and on the productive tensions between text and image. [log-in]
Taking inspiration from Raymond Williams’ Keywords, the course focuses on the critical examination of a range of theoretical positions and paradigms embedded in disciplinary terminology that have influenced the ways in which the study of culture has been approached. Through a close reading of different key theoretical texts the course aims to provide students with basic skills of critical reflection on the usages and linguistic and cultural contexts of terms. [log-in]
Any analysis of culture needs to begin with the reflection on the range of basic analytical terms and their implicit assumptions. In trying to understand Chinese culture on the ground of Western cultural theories the course integrates two lines of inquiry: first, it introduces a number of Western key theorists and texts on Cultural Studies’ central analytical terms. Second, it critically reflects these terms in an application to Chinese contexts. [log-in]