After successful completion of the course, students are able to have an overview over current state of the art respective to the course's overall theme. Students have learnt to orientate themselves within this field and know how to do harvest it for their own reasearch. Additionally, students will have learnt how to introduce their own questions into discussions and how to craft their interests into arguments.   

The main reading will be a selection of articles and book chapters around the interest in relating PRESENT TENSE POETICS to CODIFICATION AND MEMORY, tbd.

The weekly meetings entail:

• readings of approx. 30 pages

The seminar is conducted as a joint course with PHD candidates from ETH Zurich. It can be joined either actively (with the rewards of 3 ECTS) or passively (as a listener, without credit points). 

Here is our ZOOM Room for the Course – we meet Mondays 6-8 pm.

Topic: PHD Course WS 2020
Time: This is a recurring meeting

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close readings, lectures, argumentation, discussion.

Bisherige Vertiefungsthemen im Dissertantenseminar von Vera Bühlmann:

DATA AND THE FOLD OF THE GIVEN (2019)

(Michel Serres, The Incandescent (2019) und Vera Bühlmann, Information and Mathematics in the Philosophy of Michel Serres (2020))

BILDVERLUST UND AUTONOMIE DER BILDER (2018)

(Peter Handke, Bildverlust (2002);  Francois Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography (2011); Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds.), Digital Light (2015); Erasmus von Rotterdam, Copia (1512); B.Rottmann, Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero (1993)).

CHANCE (2017)

Elie Ayache, The Blank Swan: The End of Probability (2010); Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2010); Jacques Monod, "Of Strange Objects", in Chance and Necessity (1974))

MICHEL SERRES AND GNOMONICS IN THE DIGITAL (2016)

(Michel Serres, Origins of Geometry (1993); Michel Serres, The Parasite (1980))

students are expected to prepare weekly readings of approx 35 pages, and actively participate in the discussion. Presence is mandatory.