56-105 (5 LP) PRÄSENZ (unter Vorbehalt): Anthropology of infrastructure: Materiality, relations and ecological thinking

Veranstaltungsdetails
Lehrende: Quoc-Tan Tran
Veranstaltungsart:
Mittelseminar
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Anthropology of infr
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
5,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
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Kommentare/ Inhalte: When we ask ourselves, ‘What is infrastructure?’ we often think of the material base or foundation upon which a collective body's action and activities operate. However, infrastructure studies scholars have demonstrated that these notions of a substrate or material base are insufficient to describe the invisible work that supports infrastructure's day-to-day operation. Leigh Star suggests that we should ask instead, ‘When is infrastructure?’ She uses the classic example of a household water system to illustrate how technical elements of the material base become invisible or hidden from our view. When we turn on the water, we see the water running, but we never see how things work beneath the surface. We have access to clean water and rely on it in our daily lives, but we are unaware of the complexity of networked systems that transport safe water to the tip of the tap. When the time comes, all that unseen work inside the network of pipes becomes the infrastructure itself. When the tap has minor hiccups, we know that something beneath it is not working properly.

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, and approaches of infrastructure studies. We examine the complex relationship between everyday practices and everyday tools and technology through a pragmatist-ecological lens. Infrastructure is viewed as a continuous alignment of contexts. An ecological thinking can assist us in investigating emerging issues such as global connectivity, networked culture, media infrastructure, and the Internet of Things.
Literatur: Bowker, G. C. (2021). Life at the Femtosecond. In A. Volmar & K. Stine (Eds.), Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time: Essays on Hardwired Temporalities (pp. 125–142). Amsterdam University Press.

Edwards, P. N. (2017). Knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 4(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616679854The

Larkin, B. (2013). The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology, 42(1), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522

Pinch, T. (2010). On making infrastructure visible: putting the non-humans to rights. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep044

Star, S. L., & Bowker, G. C. (2006). How to infrastructure. In L. A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of new media: Social shaping and consequences of ICTs (pp. 230–245). SAGE.
Modulkürzel: 56-105 (5 LP)

BA HF/NF: EKW (fsb13-14)- HF-M3, NF-M3, HF-M4, NF-M4, NF-M5, M11, SG, WB-Kultur;

MA: M7/WB-FV fachliche Vertiefung

56-105 (7 LP) mit MAP

BA HF/NF: EKW (fsb13-14)- HF-M3, NF-M3, HF-M4, NF-M4, HF-M5, NF-M5
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Prüfungen im Rahmen von Modulen
Modul(Startsemester)/ Kurs Prüfung Datum Lehrende Bestehens­pflicht
VK-KA (FSB13-14)-M11 Spezialfelder und Theorievertiefung (WiSe 15/16) / VK-KA (FSB13-14)-30 PRÄSENZ (unter Vorbehalt): Anthropology of infrastructure: Materiality, relations and ecological thinking 14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
VK-KA (FSB13-14)-M3 Medialität (WiSe 15/16) / VK-KA (FSB13-14)-06 PRÄSENZ (unter Vorbehalt): Anthropology of infrastructure: Materiality, relations and ecological thinking 14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung Quoc-Tan Tran Ja
VK-KA (FSB13-14)-M4 Materialität und Technizität (WiSe 15/16) / VK-KA (FSB13-14)-08 PRÄSENZ (unter Vorbehalt): Anthropology of infrastructure: Materiality, relations and ecological thinking 14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
VK-KA (FSB13-14)NFM5 Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Themenfelder (WiSe 15/16) / VK-KA (FSB13-14)-20 PRÄSENZ (unter Vorbehalt): Anthropology of infrastructure: Materiality, relations and ecological thinking 14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
14 Studienleistung k.Terminbuchung N.N. Ja
Veranstaltungseigene Prüfungen
Beschreibung Datum Lehrende Pflicht
1. Studienleistung (5LP) k.Terminbuchung Ja