Sociology and Criminology

Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Spr)

Module code: L2905B
Level 6
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Portfolio

This module utilises a variety of arts-based methodologies, for students 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 fetishization of empiricism. Through a variety of phenomenological registers (weird, eerie, sublime etc.) students will trouble our epistemic infrastructures so they may re-think our past, present, and future. Indicative timetable: 1. Thinking Phenomenologically across T-H-H 2. Hauntology 3. Time is Out-Of-Joint 4. Capitalist Sorcery 5. Haunted Intimacies (Policy, Archives) 6. Glitch (Databases) 7. The Matrix (Film) 8. Soundscapes (Audio) 9. Landscapes (Photography) 10. Map-Making (AI) 11. Memories of the Future

Module learning outcomes

• Assimilate and apply material from recent academic research (and where relevant, personal experience), to illustrate the theoretical approaches covered in the module
• Demonstrate an ability to research independently, exercise critical judgement, and write cogently and persuasively
• Create a portfolio of learning utilising a range of multi-media methods introduced throughout this module
• Critically evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of works that address social science’s fetishization of empiricism.