Course convenor
András Müllner
Course content
In this course students will become familiar with studies that explore different material conditions and means of communication.
Indicative reading
Letter, book, typewriter
Aleida Assmann: Texts, Traces, Trash. The Changing Media of Cultural Memory, Representations, No. 56. Special Issue: The New Erudition (Autumn, 1996), pp.123-134.
John Durham Peters: Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall Street,
Martin Stingelin: Comments on a Ball: Nietzsche’s Play on the Typewriter, in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (eds.): Materialities of Communication, ford. William Whobrey, Stanford UP, Stanford, California, 1994, 70-82.
Radio, telephon
Wolfgang Hagen: „On the Minute”. Benjamin silent work for the German radio, interner: http://www.whagen.de/vortraege/2006/20061201Benjamin/OnTheMinute.pdf
Wolfgang Hagen: Artaud and the Serialization of Radio, internet: http://whagen.de/publications/2006/BremenArtaud/HagenEnglischFertig.htm; Illustration: Antonin Artaud: Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu, Hajas Tibor: Érintés (rádió-performansz) [Touch (Radio Performance)], Kossuth Rádió, Gondolatjel, 1979. február 4. Artpool Rádió 6.
Allen S. Weiss: Radio Icons, Short Circuits, Deep Schisms, TDR. The Drama Review/the Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 40. No. 3 (Fall 1996), 9-15.
Radio Play is No Place. A Conversation between Jérome Noetinger and Gregory Whitehead, TDR. The Drama Review/the Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 40. No. 3 (Fall 1996), 96-101.
Hypertext/interactivity
Seulemonde: Conversation with Geoffrey Bennington, internet: http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/Derrida/seule.html