Official Course Description
The seminar explores aesthetic and epistemic dimensions of play. Friedrich Schiller will set the tone, Natascha Adamowsky and other theorists of play provide a contemporary perspective on invitations to play as invitations to experiment. We will consider the philosophy of technology and notions of worldmaking through technology and play, also the philosophy of technoscience regarding modelling practices and proofs of principle in the mode of play. With Robert Creases The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance we will begin to appreciate aesthetic and artistic strategies. Case studies include the role of wood-blocks, Lego or Fisher toys for the socialization of engineers and how these may have been replaced by video gaming, establishing different ways of knowing, beholding, and probing the world. Physical tinkering and thought experiments may take us back to the 18th century and the aesthetics of William Hogarth and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Do we learn (only?) through play what a world is, what laws or rules are, what it means to inhabit and act in a world? -- The seminar will be held in English, likely guests include Colin Milburn and Joe Dumit from the University of California Davis. It will be conducted like a conference or workshop and students are expected to actively participate as speakers in the conference.
The location of the seminar is yet to be announced. There will be some travel-cost. It is likely that the cost for participation and accommodation at the conference site can be covered. Since the number of participants will have to be limited, it is advisable to contact as soon as possible [url=mailto:nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de]nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de[/url]
[b]Vorbesprechungstermine[/b]
Di 9. Mai - 17 bis 18:30
Di 20. Juni - 17 bis 18:30
Di 11. Juli - 17 bis 18:30
[b]Seminartermine[/b]
21.8. Anreise
22., 23., 24.8. jeweils 10 bis 17 Uhr
25.8. 10. bis 13 Uhr
Online Offerings
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The seminar explores aesthetic and epistemic dimensions of play. Friedrich Schiller will set the tone, Natascha Adamowsky and other theorists of play provide a contemporary perspective on invitations to play as invitations to experiment. We will consider the philosophy of technology and notions of worldmaking through technology and play, also the philosophy of technoscience regarding modelling practices and proofs of principle in the mode of play. With Robert Creases The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance we will begin to appreciate aesthetic and artistic strategies. Case studies include the role of wood-blocks, Lego or Fisher toys for the socialization of engineers and how these may have been replaced by video gaming, establishing different ways of knowing, beholding, and probing the world. Physical tinkering and thought experiments may take us back to the 18th century and the aesthetics of William Hogarth and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Do we learn (only?) through play what a world is, what laws or rules are, what it means to inhabit and act in a world? -- The seminar will be held in English, likely guests include Colin Milburn and Joe Dumit from the University of California Davis. It will be conducted like a conference or workshop and students are expected to actively participate as speakers in the conference.
The location of the seminar is yet to be announced. There will be some travel-cost. It is likely that the cost for participation and accommodation at the conference site can be covered. Since the number of participants will have to be limited, it is advisable to contact as soon as possible [url=mailto:nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de]nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de[/url]
[b]Vorbesprechungstermine[/b]
Di 9. Mai - 17 bis 18:30
Di 20. Juni - 17 bis 18:30
Di 11. Juli - 17 bis 18:30
[b]Seminartermine[/b]
21.8. Anreise
22., 23., 24.8. jeweils 10 bis 17 Uhr
25.8. 10. bis 13 Uhr
Online Offerings
moodle
- Lehrende: Alfred Nordmann
Semester: ST 2023