Temporalities Histories Hauntologies (A) (L2905A)
Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Aut)
Module L2905A
Module details for 2025/26.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
This module utilises a variety of arts-based methodologies, for students to encounter different ways of knowing and being in the capitalocene. Through high-theory, citizen science, the archive, and artivism, we critique modernity’s metaphysics of presence, especially as it manifests in social science’s fetishization of empiricism. Through a variety of phenomenological registers (weird, eerie, sublime etc.) students will trouble our epistemic infrastructures so they may re-think our past, present, and future. Indicative timetable:
1. Thinking Phenomenologically across T-H-H
2. Hauntology
3. Time is Out-Of-Joint
4. Capitalist Sorcery
5. Haunted Intimacies (Policy, Archives)
6. Glitch (Databases)
7. The Matrix (Film)
8. Soundscapes (Audio)
9. Landscapes (Photography)
10. Map-Making (AI)
Module learning outcomes
Assimilate and apply material from recent academic research (and where relevant, personal experience), to illustrate the theoretical approaches covered in the module
Demonstrate an ability to research independently, exercise critical judgement, and write cogently and persuasively
Create a portfolio of learning utilising a range of multi-media methods introduced throughout this module
Critically evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of works that address social science’s fetishization of empiricism.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio (4000 words) | Semester 1 Assessment Week 1 Mon 16:00 | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Semester | Workshop | 2 hours | 11111011111 |
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