(((just don't expect to get a paycheck, because it isn't really industry, it's culture...)))
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/programmes/ma-culture-industry.php
MA in Culture Industry * (* Subject to validation)
The MA Culture Industry is a new course starting in September 2007. In a collaboration between the Department of Media and Communication and the Centre for Cultural Studies the teaching team includes Professor Scott Lash, Professor Angela McRobbie, and Dr Matthew Fuller. Using an innovative mixture of advanced cultural theory and practice based elements including placements and student lead research and experimental projects this course aims to put debates about organisation and production at the forefront of cultural thinking.
Courses include:
Theories of the Culture Industry: work, creativity and precariousness
Practices of the Culture Industry
Culture Industry: Projects
Culture Industry: Placements
Research Lab
Options, drawn from a range available in Goldsmiths
Who is it for?
This Masters course is aimed at graduates with an interest in working and intervening in the Cultural Industries. Some candidates may come via the traditional academic route, while others will have experience of working within the cultural field in some way prior to undertaking the course. Candidates will normally have either an undergraduate degree in the humanities or social sciences or in practice-based fields such as fine art, design, architecture or computing. If you want to incorporate contemporary thinking on the organisation and work of culture into your practice or research, this is the course for you.
Indicative Reading:
Scott Lash and Celia Lury, Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity, 2006
Angela McRobbie, In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music, Routledge, London, 1999
Andrew Ross, No Collar, the humane workplace and its hidden costs, Basic Books, New York, 2003
Nicholas Bouriaud, Relational Aesthetics, Editions du Réel, Bordeux, 2002
Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005
Maurizio Lazzarato, ‘Immaterial Labour’, in, Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt, (eds) Radical Thought in Italy, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996
Geert Lovink, My First Recession, V2_publishers / NAI, Rotterdam, 2004
Jean Francois Lyotard, Libidinal Economy, Athlone, London, 1995
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, 2005
Further information? Interested in applying?: Please email Lisa Rabanal ([email protected])
