Shelley Jackson - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures
ARTIFICAL LIFE (3 credits)
Examines the creative possibilities of/in cyberlife and provides a philosophical framework for an encounter with the art of living as artificial eXistence by nature. (with Wolfgang Schirmacher)Required Books and Reading Assignments
Bell, David and Barbara M. Kennedy. The Cybercultures Reader.
Routledge. March 2000, 800 pages, Library Binding, 1st edition,
ISBN: 0415183782. Buy it at Amazon.com.
March 2000, 800 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0415183790. Buy it
at Amazon.com.
Schopenhauer,
Arthur. Philosophical Writings (German Library, Vol 27). Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor). Continuum Pub Group. June 1997, 300 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0826407285. Buy it at Amazon.com.
July 1994, 300 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0826407293. Buy it at Amazon.com.
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP (2-credit workshop)
From scriptwriting and novels to philosophical prose and poetry, diverse forms of language needed for media are presented and discussed.
LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION (3 credits) with Martin Hielscher
Explores literature as model of communication, stimulates creative writing, and discusses the philosophical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno. Includes a workshop with a guest author such as Nicholson Baker, Julian Barnes, Marcel Beyer, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, or Colum McCann.
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor) Aesthetic Theory. University of Minnesota Press. Paperback, 448 pages, December 1998, ISBN: 0816618003. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.