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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College College of Law and Politics
Course Code EX578
Theme・Subtitle 博覧会・ミュージアム・デパートにみる知と権力
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.4・9204
Credit 2
Course Number LPX2910
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method "Other" Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation 〇(履修中止可/ Eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
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Text Code EX578

【Course Objectives】

Though there have been a lot of arguments over the construction plans and costs of the 2025 Osaka Expo these days, do we surely know what the World Exposition is? In this seminar, we will examine expositions themselves, setting aside the current issues of the 2025 Osaka Expo (How much will it waste? Is that necessary one thing or another?). What are expositions? Where and when were they initiated? What is the purpose of them? What kinds of content do they include? (Unlike Olympic games, where sporting contents are self-evident, expositions do not seem to have fixed contents of events.) To consider the expositions is actually to problematize the modern relation between knowledge and power such as accumulation, classification, and exhibition. In abstract terms, the discussion of exhibitions is related to Euro-centrism, colonialism, the Industrial Revolution, mass consumerism society, sanitation, urban development, and propaganda. In concrete terms, it is deeply related to museums and department stores which are very common in our current lives.

【Course Contents】

The text of this seminar is Yoshimi Shunya's Politics of Exhibitions. We will read the text twenty pages a week. This book includes not only historical facts of exhibitions but also philosophical theories of Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, and so on. The students need to study and research these theorists and their key concepts.

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