Konst, estetik och kritik, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Books (to buy or loan) 

Eagleton, Terry, The Function of Criticism (London och New York: Verso, 1984 and later editions). 136 s. 

Felski, Rita, “Preface” och ”Attachmen”, i: Hooked: Art and Attachment (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020), vii-xiv, 1-40. 49 s. 

Habermas, JĂĽrgen, A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics, trans. Ciaran Cronin (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023). 128 s. 

  

Articles on the Web, on Canvas (C) or as E-book/E-journal in Södertörn University Library (SUL). 

Deuze, Mark & Tamara Witschge, “Beyond journalism: Theorizing the transformation of journalism”, Jo, vol 10, no. 2 (2018), 165-181. 17 s. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884916688550. 

Fraser, Nancy, What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender, New German Critique, No. 35 (Spring - Summer, 1985), 97-131. 35 s. (SUL, E-journal.) 

Latour, Bruno, ”Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern”, Critical Inquiry, vol. 30, no. 2 (Winter 2004), 225-248. 24 s. (SUL, E-journal.) 

Polletta, Francesca and Jessica Callahan, “Deep stories, nostalgia narratives, and fake news: Storytelling in the Trump era, American Journal of Cultural Sociology (2017), vol. 5 (2017), 392–408. 17 s. (SUL, E-journal.) 

Warner, Michael, “Uncritical Reading”, i: Polemic: Critical and Uncritical, ed. Jane Gallop (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 13-38. 26 s. (C.) 

Ca 4 articles will be chosen by the students on the role of the critic in relation to social media. 

The teacher may add or replace shorter texts.