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Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Aut) (L2905A)

15 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

This module utilises a variety of arts-based methodologies for you 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 fetishisation of empiricism.

Through a variety of phenomenological registers (weird, eerie, sublime etc), you’ll trouble our epistemic infrastructures so you may re-think our past, present and future. Topics may include:

• thinking phenomenologically across Temporalities – Histories – Hauntologies
• hauntology
• time is out of joint
• capitalist sorcery
• haunted intimacies (policy, archives)
• glitch (databases)
• The Matrix (film)
• soundscapes (audio)
• landscapes (photography)
• map-making (AI).

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 20 hours of contact time and about 130 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.