• The Cyborg Apocalypse

    Author(s):
    Amanda Licastro (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanities, HEP Teaching as a Profession, TC Popular Culture, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Apocalyptic literature, Digital humanities, Educational technology
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Apocalyptic Literature, digital composition, digital humanities, humanities teaching, Instructional technology
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M65B6D
    Abstract:
    Is the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect of our own transformation into technologically enhanced organisms seems imminent. In this course we will investigate posthumanism through a critical look at cybernetics in our culture, examining representations in media such as literature, film, television, advertising, video games, and comics. Students will research the current state of modern medical and robotics science and use this to inform their readings of the cyborg in our society. Critiques will be framed through the lens of gender, race, and labor using the theory of scholars Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, and Lennard Davis. The class will engage in multimodal research projects on a WordPress blog that focus on building written and visual rhetorical skills. Readings will include fiction such as Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Karel Capek’s R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which will be paired with films such as The Stepford Wives and shows such as “Black Mirror.”
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