55001 Cultural Studies Honours Seminar
8cp Honours subject – 400 level
This subject is designed to match the concept and practice of research with the various realisations of writing. In response to the question 'Where does cultural studies come from?' we go back to the roots, before 'cultural studies' was defined as such. The term originated as an offspring: of media studies, cultural history and the conflations that were the result of moves in areas such as sociology, philosophy, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, political science, art history, musicology and literary criticism in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. This involves going back to the pre-history represented by major figures such as Walter Benjamin and Gaston Bachelard, and their writings on cities and the poetics of space. From there we proceed to De Certeau, and the poetics of walking in the city, contrasted with the Situationists' psychogeography and other readings of the city, with a case study of Naples using Benjamin's essay as a starting point.
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