GMU:Thinking in tanks II

Werkmodul Fachmodul

Lecturer: Julian Chollet & Bastian Buegler

Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS

Dates: 03.11. – 02.02. every Tuesday (15:15 - 16:45)
Venue: Usually online (optional meetings in the park)

FIRST MEETING Tuesday 03.11. 15:15 - 16:45 in the Ilmpark, Weimar (hopefully)

Students

• Noeme
• Lisa Richter
• Maximilian Goetz
• Dean Ruddock
• Dominik Kämmer
• Sophia Kindt
• Chung Man Lun(Molly)
• Effa

Abstract

Our contemporary political landscape as well as public debate is increasingly dominated by extreme positions. Opinions and assumptions are echoed through (social) media, loose their connection to reality and transform into collective imaginations of more or less homogeneous peer groups. All those groups have their own values, a canon of guiding principles, their specific ingroup language and a common externalized enemy.

Over the course of the semester, every participant will develop a fictional character based on real-world ideologies and analyze their inherent thought patterns. Using a diverse set of methodologies (e.g. roleplay) we will then identify the intellectual and emotional traps of those paradigms, with the objective to overcome them. The concept of this course is experimental and will be further developed together with the participants.

Participation by individuals who are not enrolled in university is highly encouraged. Please register by sending an email to julian@mikrobiomik.org as soon as possible (limited space).

WARNING!!! Literature and media recommendations may be highly controversial and from dubious sources (content can be added by all members of Bauhaus-University)

Finished projects from last semester

Rojin
https://cloud.uni-weimar.de/s/xzDeqL9o3cA24i2#pdfviewer

Yasemin
https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:YaseminYagci_thinkingInTheTanks.pdf

Wiki-pages from last semesters Participants

• Lisa Richter
• Maximilian Goetz
• Karoline Brueske
• Rojin Safa
• Chou Fang-Sheng
• Samuel Flach
• Yasemin Yagci
• Dean Ruddock

Books

• Hartmut Rosa: "Unverfügbarkeit" (ISBN: 978-3701734467)
• Sarah T. Roberts: "Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media" (ISBN: 978-0300235883)
• Siva Vaidhyanathan: "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" (ISBN: 978-0190841164)
• Jaron Lanier: "Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" (ASIN: B079RXHTYR)

Articles

please add

Videos

• Alex Garland's "Devs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8klax373ds
• Mehr Sinn statt Gier | ARTE Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCmsvPR6PuE
• A local multiplayer game for 4 humans and one keyboard: https://abstract-office.itch.io/leftupright