Czech

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Students will get acquainted with different perspectives on nature and landscape, will be able to relate to concepts of cultural landscape, urban landscape, wilderness, anthropocene, or capitalocene in a critical and creative way.

A comprehensive overview of social and cultural events.

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The course is based on a combination of lectures and seminars focused on joint discussion of selected texts, or discussion with invited guests.

The credit is awarded on the basis of a curator or artistic project, or an essay up to five standard pages.

Lectures on topics:
Landscape and Nature from a perspective of aesthetics and philosophy – historical overview.
Landscape and Nature from a perspective of aesthetics and philosophy – current situation.
Anthropocene – history of the influence of European civilization on nature (global view).
Collapses of civilizations and cultures as a consequence of environmental change; Nature and capital.
Art and Anthropocene – overview of art and curatorial projects.

Seminars:
(preliminary themes, the guests will be specified during the semester)
1. Human activity in the landscape from the Neolithic to the Industrial Era: not only destructive, but also landscape-forming processes (2 seminars – prehistory, middle ages and modernity – local view);
2. The urban and post-industrial landscape as a new wilderness, a free agricultural landscape as a new desert;
3. Extinction of species x new intruders – a look at evolutionary biology, philosophy, anthropology, art; memory of animals and plants in art, folklore, mythology;
4., 5. – Analysis of specific works of art, literature and film (especially sci-fi and related genres)

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The aim of the course is to introduce students to a topic that has become the center of attention during recent years in connection with the increasing trend of anthropogenic influences on local ecosystems and the geosphere as a whole and to demonstrate – In connection with this topic – how the discourses of science and art overlap.

Attendance compulsory (75 percent).

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Naomi KLEIN, This Changes Everything. Penguin Books, 2015. (EN)
T. J. DEMOS, Decolonizing Nature. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. (EN)

Aaron Gross and Anne Valley. Animals and the Human Imagination. (EN)
Alan WEISMAN, Svět bez nás. Praha: Argo – Dokořán, 2008. (CS)
Amitav Ghosh. The Great Derangement. (EN)
Anna Tsing, ed. The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. (EN)
Anna Tsing. Mushroom at the End of the World. (EN)
Ashley Dawson: Extinction: A Radical History. New York: OR Books, 2016. (EN)
Catriona Mortimer Sandilands and Bruce Ericson. Queer Ecologies. Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, (EN)
Donna J. HARAWAY, Staying With the Trouble. Duke University Press, 2016. (EN)
Eduardo KOHN, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. University of California Press, 2013. (EN)
Elizabeth KOLBERT, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Henry Holt & Company, 2014. (EN)
Emma Marris. Rambunctious Garden. Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. (EN)
Christopher Bonneuil and Francois Gemene. Anthropoce and the Global Environmental Crisi. (EN)
Christopher Bonneuil and Jean Baptiste Fressoz. The Shock of the Anthropocene. (EN)
James Garvey. Etika klimatické změny. (CS)
James LOVELOCK, Gaia vrací úder. Praha: Argo, 2009. (CS)
Jason W. MOORE et al., Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. KAIROS, 2016. (EN)
John McNeil. Something New Under the Sun. An Environmental History of the 20th Century. (EN)
Lucy Lippard, Undermining. A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. New York: The New Press, 2014. (EN)
Lynn MARGULISOVÁ, Symbiogenetická planeta. Praha: Academia, 2004. (CS)
Nathalie BLANC – Barbara L. BENISH, Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability. Routledge 2016. (EN)
Pavel Hájek, ed.: Krajina a revoluce. Malá skála: Malá skála, 2005. (CS)
Petr Vidomus. Otelplí se a bude lí. Česká klimaskepse v čase globální krize. (CS)
Simon SCHAMA, Krajina a paměť. Praha: Argo – Dokořán, 2007. (CS)
Ursula K. HEISE, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species. University of Chicago Press, 2016. (EN)