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Hermeneutic Positions: HP-608 (2 ECTS) and HP-609 (5 ECTS)

In this course, we will study various hermeneutic positions, from the Frankfurt School’s “critical theories” to contemporary reflections on ways of understanding the formation of meaning.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, September 2. Room A7-002

9:15–10:00

Unni Langås: Introduction

10:15–11:45

Camilla Flodin: Theodor Adorno and critical theory

11:45–12:30

LUNCH BREAK

12:30–14:00

Presentations by participants

14:30–16:00

Charles I. Armstrong: On Deconstruction

Thursday, September 3. Room A7-002

9:15–10:45

Christa Wirth: Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction

11:00–12:00

Presentations by participants

12:00–13:00

LUNCH BREAK

13:00–14:30

Niamh Ni Bhroin: Critical perspectives on robotification and synthetic media

15:00–16:00

Presentations by participants

Friday, September 4. Room A7-001

9:15–10:45

Jon Olav Sørhaug: Machine text and meaning: Material hermeneutics in the encounter with generative AI

11:00–12:00

Presentations by participants

12:00–13:00

LUNCH BREAK

13:00–14:00

Presentations by participants

14:00–15:00

Final summary and discussion

SYLLABUS

Unni Langås: Introduction

Culler, Jonathan: “Hermeneutics and Literature.” In: Michael N. Forster and Kristin Gjesdahl (eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics. Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 304–325.

Charles I. Armstrong: On Deconstruction

Derrida, Jacques: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In: Modern Criticism and Theory. A Reader. Edited by David Lodge. Longman 1988, pp. 107–123.

Derrida, Jacques: "... That Dangerous Supplement..." In: Of Grammatology. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 141–164.

Derrida, Jacques: Specters of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. Routledge 1994, pp. xvii til xx ("Exordium") and pp. 3 to 24.

Christa Wirth: Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction

Alcoff Martin, Linda. “Philosophy and Philosophical Practice: Eurocentrism as an Epistemology of Ignorance.” In: Language, Culture, and Identity – Signs of Life, eds. Vera da Silva Sinha et al. (John Benjamins Publishing Company: 2020): 7-22. (Online on Oria).

Bhambra, Gurminder K. “Decolonizing Critical Theory? Epistemologies Justice, Progress, Reparations,” Critical Times 4, no. 1 (2021): 73-89.

Topdar, Sudipa, “The Corporeal Empire: Physical Education and Politicising Children’s Bodies in Late Colonial Bengal,” in Gender & History 29 (2017), 1, 176-197.

Camilla Flodin: Theodor Adorno and critical theory

Adorno, Theodor W. [1969] 2004. «Om subjekt og objekt», Agora, vol. 22, nr. 3, https://www.scup.com/doi/pdf/10.18261/ISSN1500-1571-2004-03-10

Adorno, Theodor W. [1958] 1991. «Tale om lyrikk og samfunn», i Moderne litteraturteori. En antologi, red. Atle Kittang m.fl., Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, ss. 369–384.

Niamh Ni Bhroin: Critical perspectives on robotification and synthetic media

Marco Nørskov: Robotification & ethical cleansing. AI & SOCIETY (2022) 37:425–441

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01203-2

Cristian Vaccari and Andrew Chadwick: Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring

the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News

Social Media + Society. January-March 2020: 1–13

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120903408

Jon Olav Sørhaug: Machine text and meaning: Material hermeneutics in the encounter with generative AI

Galit Wellner: Material hermeneutic of digital technologies in the age of AI.

AI & SOCIETY (2023) 38:2159–2166

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00952-w

Claudio Paolucci: The myth of meaning: generative AI as language-endowed machines and the machinic essence of the human being.