A quick update on a new course being taught by NMCC Director Colin Koopman. I’m now in my second year as Director of NMCC and I’m very happy to announce a new graduate course on media archaeology and media genealogy I’ll be teaching in Spring of 2020 (note the year, not this coming term, but in a year from now).

From Archaeology to Media Genealogy will be a graduate offering focusing on the canonical work of media archaeologists such as Friedrich Kittler, Cornelia Vismann, and Wolfgang Ernst (as well as other figures of the ‘German School of Media Archaeology’). We will then explore recent work moving toward media genealogy, some of which was announced in a recent special section on Media Genealogy at the International Journal of Communications. All of this will take place against the trajectory of the work of Michel Foucault, and his own movement from philosophical archaeology to philosophical genealogy, though no prior knowledge of Foucault will be expected.

The course will be offered through the Philosophy Department and will be open to graduate students of any major. The course will be focused primarily on theory and history, but I have expansive conceptions of both of these. I’d love (!) to have NMCC students from any discipline in this course and in fact you all are the reason I am teaching this.

[Note that the course will be offered as a 400/500 but will be taught at the graduate level throughout and will also include separate grad-student-only meetings once per week (the times for these will be built into the class schedule announced on DuckWeb once the course is up for registration).]

If you have any questions, please email me at koopman@uoregon.edu.