Autumn 2024
Meeting:
MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm / ARC 160
SLN:
12739
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
Kallie Strode
HOW DO POPULAR DIGITAL CULTURES
EXPAND, COMPLICATE, OR DISTURB OUR
TRADITIONAL VISIONS OF APOCALYPTIC
OR POST-APOCALYPTIC THINKING? TO
WHAT EXTENT DOES HAVING A LIFE
WITHIN AND THROUGH CYBERSPACE INFOR
DYSTOPIAN FEELING-STATES SUCH AS
GRIEF, DENIAL, MELANCHOLY, ANXIETY,
OR TERMINALITY? THIS COURSE IS A
SURVEY OF CATASTROPHIC IMAGININGS O
THE FUTURITY OF HUMAN-MACHINE
RELATIONSHIPS AS THEY EMERGE IN THE
20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES WITHIN FILM
TELEVISION, AND ONLINE DISCOURSE.
COURSE THEMES INCLUDE DATA
PROTECTION AND CYBERSECURITY,
TRANSHUMANISM AND DIGITAL ZOMBIES,
NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM IN THE DIGITA
AGE, AND TECHNOLOGIES OF SIMULATION
A&H, DIV CREDIT
Catalog Description:
Introduces strategies for interpreting popular culture and film, focusing on a range of filmic subgenres that imagine future worlds, while situating these films within wider cultural, political, and historical contexts and foregrounding questions of power and difference, science and technology, and the politics of representation. Offered: AS.
GE Requirements Met:
Diversity (DIV)
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
December 30, 2024 - 8:31 am