Postcolonial Piracy - Einzelansicht

This course sets out to chart and analyse fundamental changes in cultural production in the global South over the last 50 years. Its starting point is the observation that especially in the urban semi-peripheries across the planet, access to global flows of technologies, media and goods, and corresponding everyday as well as artistic cultural practices overwhelmingly happen by sidetracking Western notions of authorship and intellectual property. In this course, we will read a number of representive essay which may help us to better understand `postcolonial piracy`, and its reverberations for global modernity.

Readings will be taken from Eckstein and Schwarz (eds.), Postcolonial Piracy (Bloomsbury, open access).

Regular active participation (both in zoom meetings as well as in asychronous activities I will no longer pass students in this semester who fail to participate regularly)

1000 word essay based on a (group) research project and presentation