760-404 Deleuze, Lyotard and the Arts

Formerly available as 760-404 Deleuze and the Arts. Students who have completed Deleuze and the Arts are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

For BCA students 25 points of second or third year visual media.

Examines in depth Gilles Deleuze's and Jean Francois Lyotard's various works on creativity, literature, theatre, cinema, and the visual arts in respect to their aesthetic and political dimensions. It will also compare Deleuze and Lyotard's ideas with those of other philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Heidegger and Derrida.

• understand the various cultural, social and philosophical perspectives that inform the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jean Francois Lyotard;

• be able to trace the evolution of relevant aesthetic ideas and concerns within the context of Western cultural practice;

• recognise and articulate ways in which Deleuze and Lyotard's work pertains to, and challenges, this aesthetic tradition;

• demonstrate advanced skills in researching relevant primary and secondary source materials;

• demonstrate how to 'read' an aesthetic work.

Two assignments of 2000 words for 3rd year students 50% each and two assignments of 2500 words for 4th year students 50% each (both assignments are equally weighted and due mid-semester and at the end of semester respectively).

A subject reader will be available.