Narrative Environments

Narrative Environments

This series of lectures and reading seminars focuses on an exploration of discourses, speech acts, and power relations. In a second step, we critically explore history and the notion of 'universal history', representations of history (historiographies), and power relations. We draw on the work of Foucault and Benjamin to develop a political rather than historical reading of the past as a means of intervening in contemporary environments for alternative futures.

Date

2014–2016

Language

English

Location

University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins

Author

Günter Gassner

Keywords

Spatial imaginaries

Spatial practices

Aesthetics

Heritage

Benjamin