Media And Its Discontents: A Carnival Course on Art, Power, and Popular Resistance
Schedule
Thu Feb 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
20 N 2nd Ave E, Duluth, MN 55802-2111, United States | Duluth, MN
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An 8-Week Seminar Taught by Gus GanleyThursdays, February 20–April 10, 2025 | 6-9pm CT
At Waterstop Infoshop and on Zoom
(20 North 2nd Avenue East, Duluth)
“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” —Marshall McLuhan
Media And Its Discontents is an 8-week carnival seminar on the post-history of art in the electric age, an emergency roadmap for liberation from our technological masters, and an introductory course to a post-internet studies curriculum. The course spans the seven dominant artistic media of western civilization: our images, our music, our theatre, our architecture, our cinema, our games, our words. Classes will connect the recent assassination of a health insurance CEO to the Lord of the Rings, Johnny Cash, watering holes, Fallout, Susan Sontag, and the philosophy of American Pragmatism. This experimental education aims to help us understand the media that make us who we are, and in so doing, dispel popular myths of inevitability and resurrect practices of livability in an era of mass digital replacement.
The seminar will be comprised of lecture, discussion, and artistic co-creation. Participants should bring a notebook, open mind, and desire to counter-engineer colonization.
Drop-ins welcome, pay-what-you-can*
Single Class: suggested $8
Full Seminar: suggested $50-75
*No one turned away for lack of funds.
Register at: emergentseas.org/projects/maid
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