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77511-01 - Seminar: The Digital and the Literary (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2025 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | |
| Inhalt | What does it mean when people say we live in a “digital” era? What is “the digital,” and should we define it against something “analog” or something different altogether? Today, there’s a lot of anxiety and fatigue around what was once optimistically called a “digital revolution.” Part of this comes from the impression that we have shattered the “self” into a million pieces of data. The classical self that emerged from the Enlightenment and the early novel seems to have transformed into minute data points, where a certain type of knowledge has been earned at the cost of feeling incomplete and alienated to ourselves. In this course, the rise of “the digital,” writ large, redirects our attention to the history of the novel, a form that many critics deem fundamental to the creation of the modern self. How did novels create a feeling of wholeness? Were novels some sort of original model of simulation, but a simulation at a warmer, more familiar scale? Or did novels anticipate the “data self,” with its creepy surveillance in the creative uses of point of view, self-conscious stylization, and the relentless description of qualities and behaviors? What separates novels from systems of digital computation, and what questions can we ask when comparing the two as smaller provinces within a larger system of writing? What was the old literary model for writing the self, and how does it inform the digital today? This course uses the history of the novel as a case point to compare “genres of computation” with the historical formation and dissolution of models of selfhood. |
| Lernziele | This course aims to cultivate a critical imagination about the relationship between digital technology and the formation of the self, using the novel as a historical and conceptual anchor. You will learn how to think about computation not only as a technical process but as a larger cultural and philosophical one, and we will build up a more capacious image of writing and media grounded in our use of different methods of reading. We will also treat computation as a cultural logic and as a condition for interpretation, one that can be compared to other forms of writing in literary history and what they afforded for modeling, simulation, and narration. Students will engage with theories of the digital and the self, considering how literary fiction and computation have functioned across time. |
| Literatur | All assigned readings will be made available during the course. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The number of available places is limited, and students of digital humanities will be given priority to this course. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14.15-16.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Dienstag 23.09.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 30.09.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 07.10.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 14.10.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 21.10.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 28.10.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 04.11.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 11.11.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 18.11.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 25.11.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 02.12.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 09.12.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Dienstag 16.12.2025 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 210 |
| Module |
Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive (Masterstudium - Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät) Modul: Digital Humanities, Culture and Society (Master Studienfach: Digital Humanities) Modul: Forschung und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Slavistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Deutsche Philologie) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Französistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Hispanistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Italianistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Latinistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Nordistik) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Masterstudium - Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät) Modul: Literaturtheorie (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul: Theoretische Perspektiven MA (Master Studienfach: Medienwissenschaft) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Bachelor Medienwissenschaft: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Medienwissenschaft) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Digital Humanities Lab |