戰爭與媒介:歷史、技術、文化
War and Media: History, Technique, Culture
| 節 | 週四 |
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3 10:10–11:00 | 戰爭與媒介:歷史、技術、文化 3 節連堂 |
4 11:10–12:00 | |
N 12:20–13:10 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
Media technologies have been symbiotic with the development of modern warfare. Cinema, photography, radio, telegraph, prints, and even video games not only represent the reality of warfare but also serve as the infrastructures that communicate, orient, and mobilize audiences and soldiers on and off the battleground. The war-media complex, one may say, is the defining condition of our sensorial experiences with modernity. This graduate seminar explores the technical-cultural ensemble between war and media by tracing its historical development, technological innovation, and various forms of genres and aesthetics. From the air reconnaissance balloon in 18th century France to the Cold War antiaircraft cybernetics developed in MIT, from the radio stenography of Nazi Germany to the use of loudspeakers across the Taiwan Strait, we will trace some of the key historical moments when media technologies were directly influenced by warring conditions. We will also familiarize ourselves with a variety of audial, visual, and narrative genres rooted in military campaign and political propaganda, as we inquire into the aesthetic transformation of media between propaganda instrumentality and artistic creativity. How, for example, did Hollywood filmmakers respond to the U.S.’s involvement in The Asia-Pacific Theater during WWII, and how did their wartime engagement inform their view on postwar entertainment? How did Hong Kong’s radio novel, broadcasted via UK’s radio infrastructure, create a series of new trans-medial urban genres during the long Cold War era? How did game-play simulation and its first-person-narrative mode inform the “surgical operation” in contemporary military training? The media aesthetics of warfare, therefore, demand us to delve into the intertwined questions regarding warfare mentality, technological determination, and the role of aesthetic sensibilities. This is a reading-intense course coupled with screenings and archival activities. It is open to graduate-level students with interests in film/media studies, war and military history, and contemporary cultural theories. 媒介技術與戰爭行為是現代性感官經驗的一體兩面。從電影、攝影、電報、廣播、繪畫、文學,以至於網路遊戲,媒介不僅再現了戰爭,更扮演實際動員與宣傳戰爭的基礎設施。本課程從台灣、東亞、到世界等不同歷史時空,探討「戰爭-媒介」此一文化技術綜合體對敘事模式與美學形式的若干影響及擾動,並試圖探問在戰爭動員之外,媒介使用者或創作者的自由可能。 本課程以文獻閱讀討論為主,搭配參訪活動(台北市立美術館、海軍六燃場、黑蝙蝠中隊文物館等)、導演放映座談及作者演講。歡迎對電影/媒介研究、戰爭軍事史、批判理論有興趣之同學選修。
English Reading Proficiency *本課程主要閱讀材料為英文,部分為中文。 鼓勵非英語母語的同學盡量用英文參與討論。若需要,中文發言亦可(教師將協助翻譯)。
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | Course Introduction 課程介紹 |
| 第 2 週 | War, Media, Modernity 戰爭與媒介現代性 reading Carl von Clausewitz, On War (selections) Judith Butler, Frames of War (Intro & Ch.2) John Guillory, “Genesis of the Media Concept” Marshall McLuhan, “Medium is the Message” “The Printed Word” “Weapons” in Understanding Media Friedrich A. Kittler, “The History of Communication Media” *Suggested Readings *Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended, Lecture 1 & 7 *Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture” *Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, “Intro”, Ch. 2, Ch. 3 * 戰爭與社會:理論、歷史、主體經驗 (Edited Volume in Chinese) |
| 第 3 週 | Moon Festival 中秋節 No Class Meeting. Suggested readings: *W.J.T. Mitchell, “Preface” and Ch.1, Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present *W.J.T. Mitchell, “Image”, Critical Terms for Media Studies |
| 第 4 週 | War Games: Video Games, Simulation, and Network 重返當下:遊戲、模擬敘事及網絡社會 reading S. Deterding, “Living Room Wars: Remediation, Boardgames, and the Early History of Video Wargaming”, Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games Aubrey Anable, “Intro: Video Games as Structures of Feeling”, Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect Patrick Crogan, “Technology, War, and Simulation” & “From the Military-Industrial to the Military-Entertainment Complex”, Gameplay Mode *Tannie Allison, “Simulating War on an Algorithmic Playground”, Destructive Sublime: World War II in American Film and Media playing/showing (with invited gamer from NCTU!) @Plants v.s. Zombies @This War of Mine @Call of Duty |
| 第 5 週 | The Senses of Propaganda 宣傳的器官與感官 reading Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Selections) *H.D. Lasswell, Propaganda Technique in the World War (Selections) (Keyword: “Garrison State” 衛戍國家 ) Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, Dialectic of Enlightenment Barak Kushner, “Propaganda for Everyone”, The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda Barbara Mittler, “Popular Propaganda? Art and Culture in Revolutionary China” *Emily Wilcox, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy viewing The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda To the South, Taiwan (1939-40) 南進台灣 The White-haired Girl (1951) 白毛女 @10/17 Tour: Taipei Fine Arts Museum 參訪台北市立美術館 Exhibit 1: The Secret South: from Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection (秘密南方:典藏作品中的冷戰視角及全球南方) Exhibit 2: Henri Cartier-Bresson: China, 1948-1949 / 1958 (布列松在中國:1948-1949/ 1958) |
| 第 6 週 | Pictorial Wars: Painting, Posters, Comics 圖像戰:繪畫、海報、漫畫 reading Boris Groys, “Art at War”, “Hitler’s Art Theory”, “Socialist Realist Art” in Art Power Ikeda, Asato and others. Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960 (Selections) Gu Yi, “We Love Peace: Photographic Effect and Chinese People’s Volunteer Force Soldiers in the Korean War.” Barbara Mittler, “Chain(ed) Pictures and Chained by Pictures: Comics and Cultural Revolutions in China”, A Continuous Revolution * Hans Harder & Barbara Mittler eds, Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair *Tang, “What Does Socialist Visual Experience Mean to Contemporary Art?” Visual Culture in Contemporary China *Gu Yi, “Open-Air Painting during the War,” Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting *Johanna Drucker, “Art” in Critical Terms for Media Studies viewing Posters from Nazi Germany, Communist China, and the U.S. |
| 第 7 週 | Photography I: The Punctum of Battlefield 攝影 I:凝視刺點 reading Barger and White, “the Daguerreotype” Susan Sontag, “On Photography” Walter Benjamin, “A Small History of Photography” Roland Barthes, selections from Camera Lucida viewing Alexander Gardner/ Sally Mann (US Civil War) Bertolt Brecht, War Primer Ansel Adams (US Landscape) John Thompson (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) |
| 第 8 週 | Photography II: Witness, Testimony, Memory 攝影 II: 暴力與見證 reading Mary W. Marien, “War and Photography”, in Photography: A Cultural History Karen Beckman, “Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes” Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz Lili C. Bezner, “What is Documentary Photography”, in Photography and Politics in America: from the New Deal to the Cold War *Margret Hillenbrand, Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China viewing The Family of Man (Cold War/USIA) Henri-Cartier Bresson (Chinese Civil War) Evan Walkers (US Great Depression) Larry Burrows (Vietnam War) @11/7 Tour: Black Bat Squadron Memorial Hall + Military Community Museum (Hsinchu City) 參訪:黑蝙蝠中隊文物陳列館 +新竹眷村博物館 |
| 第 9 週 | Week 9 (11/12) Photography III: Aerial War View, Landscape, Environment 攝影III:航空影像與地景戰爭 reading Caren Kaplan, “Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime”, Aerial Aftermath: Wartime from Above Lisa Parks, “Vertical Mediation”, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare Ronak K. Kapadia, "Up in the Air", Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War @Author's Talk / 作者講座 Speaker: Mr. Tung-hung Huang /黃同弘, Topic: The Projection of Violence: Military Cartography and Aerial Reconnaissance of Southeast Asia 暴力的投影——東南亞軍事製圖與航空偵照解讀 |
| 第 10 週 | Week10 (11/19) Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex 電影的軍工複合體 reading Paul Virilio, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception (Ch. 1, 2, 7) Wasson & Grieveson, Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex (Ch. 1, 4, 10, 13) Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, “National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War I, 1913–1919”, Hollywood and War *Alice Lovejoy, Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military viewing Frank Capra, Why We Fight (Selections) @11/18 Special Film Screening: Lost Black Cats: 35th Squadron (Director’s talk in person) 紀錄片放映及導演座談:疾風魅影-黑貓中隊 (楊佈新導演映後座談) |
| 第 11 週 | Week11 (11/26) Hollywood’s Atomic Bomb Complex 好萊塢與原子彈 *Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalypse on Film (Ch. 1, 2, 4, 8) *Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked (Ch. 2) viewing a. Civil defense training shorts from US and Taiwan b. The War of the Worlds (1953), OR Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣 |
| 第 12 週 | Sonic Warfare I: A Small History of Radio (& Telecommunication) 聲波戰 I :廣播小史 reading Walter Benajmin “Reflections on Radio” Rudolf Arnheim, Selections from Radio Jacques Attali, “Listening”, in Noise: The Political Economy of Music Steven Goodman, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (pp. 1-55) *Jonathan Stern, Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction *Walter Ong, “The Orality of Language” |
| 第 13 週 | Sonic Warfare II: East Asian Perspectives 聲波戰 II: 東亞的電波戰爭 Andrew Jones, “Teresa Teng and the Network Trace”, in Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Paulina Hartono, “A Good Communist Style”: Sounding Like a Communist in Twentieth-Century China” Kerim Yasar, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan *The Soundtrack of Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and in Conflict Situations *Yang Daqing, Technology of Empire :Telecommunications and Japanese Expansionism in Asia, 1883–1945 *Damielle Simon, “From Radio to Radio-visione: Italian Radio’s Television Experiments, 1939–1940” *川島真, 「戰爭與廣播」 listening PRC: “The East is Red” 東方紅 ROC: Songs from Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 |
| 第 14 週 | TV Fever: From Vietnam War to Gulf War 電視熱:從越南到波灣 Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Ch.1) Marshall McLuhan, “Media Hot and Cold”, Understanding Media Lisa Parks, “Introduction”, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual Michael Mandelbaum, “Vietnam: The Television War” *Blogpost: “Vietnam: The First Television War” https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/25/vietnam-the-first-television-war/ *Jean Baudrillard, “The Gulf War is Taking Place” |
| 第 15 週 | War Documents: Boredom, Control, and Pleasure 文件戰:檔案的無聊與快感 David Graeber, “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant” https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Society of Control” Lisa Geitelman, Paper Knowledge, “Introduction” J.M. Chris Chang, “Paper Affairs: Discipline by the Dossier in a Mao-Era Work Unit” Cornelia Vismann, Files: Law and Media Technology, “Preface” & Ch. 1 *Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork *David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy |
| 第 16 週 | Urban Warfare: the Architecture/ Infrastructure of Wartime Governance 城鎮戰: 建築、基礎設施、與戰爭治理 Stephen Graham, Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, “Introduction” Brian Larkin. “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure” Eyal Weizman. Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, “Introduction” Greg Castillo, “Domesticity as Weapon,” Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design *Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, “Introduction” *Andrew Shanken, 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front *Barnes, Dayna. Architects of Occupation: American Experts and the Planning for Postwar Japan |
| 第 17 週 | @Tour: Japanese Imperial Navy Heritage Site (Hsinchu City) 參訪: 日本帝國海軍第六燃料廠遺址 (新竹大煙囪/活隱喻博物館) |
| 第 18 週 | Potluck/Party |
- 地點
- Classroom: HB 106A Office: HB308
- 時間
- Seminar Meeting Time: 10:10 - 13:10 (Thursday) Office Hour: By appointment
- 聯絡方式
- knulpyang@nctu.edu.tw