This seminar explores approaches to the pairing of media and modernity. How do writers and artists imagine the interfaces of media and daily life? Focusing on Brazil, this seminar will cover a range of materials from the 19th century through the present, allowing us to track the evolution of media and technology in different aesthetic languages. How do writers register the ways in which communication technologies alter the chemistry of social relations and political subjectivities? How do they demonstrate new perceptions of time? In addition to working with literary and art objects, we will also become familiar with Brazilian and Latin American media philosophies and their divergences from canonical media philosophy. Doing this will involve working with recent thinkers of media who have been drawing from other kinds of discourses, including geography, diasporic Black thought, music and ecocriticism.

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