Show More  ARTH 260   This course casts a wide but selective net
over a vast amount of material that allows us to explore the
nature, meanings, functions and experiences of time and its
intersections with space and memory across an array of
disciplines and media: philosophy, science, film, poetry,
fiction, graphic novels, sculpture, painting, performance art,
photography and video. We begin by examining the different ways
some of the greatest thinkers in the West (Aristotle, Augustine,
Newton and Einstein) grappled with the notion of time. We look
at how time has been marked, recorded and performed and at the
impact technological developments (timeclocks, uniform railway
timetables, wireless telegraphy, motion studies in industry)
have had on human history. We examine such questions as, how is
time related to memory in the context of families, communities
and nations? How do we commemorate the past and what are the
ethics of this value-laden process of reconstructing history?
What do we choose to remember and