Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course consists of a discussion of a selection of readings illustrating the main cultural theories developed to analyse cultural productions of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To develop the ability to analyse cultural productions from perspectives that take into account both the cultural text and the context in which it emerged.
To gain a thorough understanding of a number of analytical trends and concepts developed over the last century: mechanical reproduction, aura, hic et nunc (Benjamin); cultural industries, standardisation (Adorno & Horkheimer); cultural studies (Hoggart); distinction, habitus, field (Bourdieu); postmodernism (Jameson); postcolonialism (Bhabha, Mohanty); art worlds (Becker); actor-network theory, the Anthropocene (Latour), metamodernism (Vermeulen & van den Akker), hyperpop (Ackermann).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
It is preferable to have taken the Introduction to Cultural Policies course (Bac 1).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is delivered in a seminar format. From the second session onwards, the sessions will include a section comprising questions based on specific examples of cultural productions, which will then be linked to the concepts covered in the theoretical text for that session.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
The course takes place in person.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
ACKERMANN, Julie, Hyperpop. La pop au temps du capitalisme numérique, Lyon, Façonnage Éditions, 2024, 150 p.
ADORNO, Theodor W., HORKHEIMER, Max, Kulturindustrie, Paris, Allia, 2012.
APPADURAI, Arjun (dir.). « Introduction : Commodities and the politics of value », dans The Social Life of Things : Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 3-63.
BECKER, Howard, « Chapitre 1. Mondes de l'art et activités collectives », dansLes Mondes de l'Art, Paris, Flammarion, 1988, p. 27-63.
BENJAMIN, Walter, L'œuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique, version de 1939. Paris, Folio Plus, 2008.
BHABHA, Homi, Les lieux de la culture : une théorie post-coloniale, Paris : Payot, 2007. (la conclusion).
BOURDIEU, Pierre et DARBEL, Alain, « Les conditions sociales de la pratique culturelle », L'amour de l'art : Les musées et leur public, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, coll. « Le sens commun », 1966, p. 33-66.
HOGGART, Richard, « Conclusion », dans La Culture du Pauvre, Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 (1957 pour la version originale), p. 379-401.
JAMESON, Frederic, Le postmodernisme ou la logique culturelle du capitalisme tardif, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2011 (édition originale, 1991), p. 33-83.
LATOUR, Bruno, « Première Lettre », dans Cogitamus : Six lettres sur les humanités scientifiques, Paris : La découverte, 2014, p. 9-36.
MOHANTY, Chandra Talpade, « Sous les yeux de l'Occident : recherches féministes et discours coloniaux ». Genre, postcolonialisme et diversité de mouvements de femmes, edited by Christine Verschuur, translated by Emmanuelle Chauvet, Graduate Institute Publications, 2010, p. 171-202.
VERMEULEN Timotheus et VAN DEN AKKER Robin, « Notes on metamodernism », Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, vol. 2, n° 1, 2010.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Further information:
The assessment consists of an oral presentation lasting around ten minutes on a cultural work that has been selected and analysed in advance. If its format allows, the work may be brought along in physical form to the assessment. Otherwise, it may be presented in high-quality printed or digital format (on a smartphone or laptop). Videos are accepted, but must not exceed thirty seconds in length. The presentation must include 1/ a description of the chosen work and 2/ an analysis of it using one or more of the texts studied during the term. A criteria-based assessment grid will be provided to students during the final class. Students will not be permitted to bring any notes with them, but each student will have the time allowed for the previous student's presentation to organise their thoughts on a scrap of paper provided whilst waiting for their turn.
Attendance at the course is compulsory. After two unauthorised absences, the student will be automatically transferred to the second sitting (August).
NB: For the use of conversational AI, please consult the ULiège charter at the following link: https://www.student.uliege.be/cms/c_19230399/fr/faq-student- . Failure to comply with this charter of good practice will be considered fraud and will result in a mark of zero for the entire examination.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Christophe Pirenne cpirenne@uliege.be
Chloé Violle cviolle@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.