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The body and technology

Telo in tehnologija

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

doc. dr. Eva Vrtačič

Type:

Elective expert

Language:

English

Semester:

First semester

Study degree

1. level

    Course execution:

  • Undergraduate Programme of Cultural studies - Studies of Culture and Creativity

Prerequisits:

Students are allowed to participate in the course provided that they have completed the enrolment procedure.

Objectives and competences

OBJECTIVES: To equip students with conceptual apparatus and theoretical framework that will enable them to comprehend and critically reflect the conceptions of the body in contemporary Western societies, marked with technologies. COMPETENCES: Knowledge and understanding of contemporary theoretical insights into the topic as well as command of conceptual apparatus, ability to critically analyze the intersections of the body and technology.

Content (Syllabus outline)

The course provides insight into the ways the body generates meanings, how it acts, and how it is acted upon by social forces. A short genealogy of modern Western body is given, as well as a critical analysis of key theorizations that have constructed the body as a concept. The body is interpreted as marked, modified, and colonized by the subject, culture and capital, but also as one of the last possible sites of resistance and subversion. Through the pursuit of understanding of the body as a machine the ambivalent relationship between the body and technology is analyzed. It is explained through the metaphor of the cyborg, the concept of biopolitics, as well as via insight into the biomedical expectations on body management, techno-body policies and the construction of otherness. The intersections of the body and technology are critically analyzed, in particular by employing the phenomenological paradigm. Topics: the body, technology, corporeality, embodiment.

Intended learning outcomes:

Knowledge of Western genealogy of the body and understanding of key theoretical insights into the concept, the ability to employ the conceptual apparatus in particular studies as well as in critical analysis of the construction of relationships between the body and technology.

Learning and teaching methods:

- lectures - seminar - individual research - consultations - a maximum of 25 % of activities will take place online (via Zoom, online classroom etc.).

Assessment

Written midterm exam (30 %), written final exam (70%).

Obligatory literature

1. Unit of obligatory literature:


Notes: Pedagog bo izbrano gradivo študentom podal pri predmetu neposredno na predavanjih, ali v spletni referat ali spletno učilnico.

2. Unit of obligatory literature:


Author: Braidotti, Rosi
Title: The posthuman »
Edition: Reprinted
Publishing: Cambridge ; Malden : Polity, 2023
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4157-7; 978-0-7456-4158-4
COBISS.SI-ID: 204160003 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
All obligatory literature in catalog ODKJG »

Additional literature

1. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Giblett, Rodney James
Title: The body of nature and culture »
Publishing: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-22273-1; 0-230-22273-0; 978-0-230-59517-0
COBISS.SI-ID: 36228189 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fdv-odkjg/detail.action?docID=455279

2. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Klipphahn-Karge, Michael (ur.)
Title: Queer reflections on AI : uncertain intelligences »
Publishing: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-003-35795-7
COBISS.SI-ID: 205551107 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
Notes: Dostopno tudi na: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113166
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003357957/queer-reflections-ai-sara-morais-dos-santos-bruss-ann-kathrin-koster-michael-klipphahn-karge

3. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Alphin, Caroline
Title: Neoliberalism and cyberpunk science fiction : living on the edge of burnout »
Edition: 1st ed.
Publishing: New York ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-003-04450-5
COBISS.SI-ID: 203902723 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003044505/neoliberalism-cyberpunk-science-fiction-caroline-alphin
All additional literature in catalog ODKJG »

Hot to aquire credits:

For full and part study

  1. Lectures, seminars and individual consultations
    Written exam, oral exam, written/oral exam
    Midterm exam

Curriculum was last modified on: 23.04.2024