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Cursus: MCMV16028
MCMV16028
Somatechnics: Bodies and Power in a Digital Age
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMCMV16028
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
After completion of this course the student is able to:
A) critically investigate and creatively engage with the social implications of new media and new (digital) technology for discussions about subjectivity and identities in contemporary global contexts;
B) present theoretical and practical knowledge for technological literacy in a digital era;
C) analyse case studies from an interdisciplinary methodological perspective in gender studies and media studies;
D) bring academic knowledge to the professional field in the social, political and cultural sector.
Inhoud
This course explores in both creative and critical ways the ‘hype’ that still surrounds the new technological and digital cultures we are living in today. Somatechnics - combining in one word the constitutive interaction of bodies (soma) and technologies (techne) - explores how ever changing technologies affect our daily experience and understanding of questions of subjectivity and identity, of bodies and power. The course investigates how technologies continuously change our relationship to our bodies.
This course approaches the processes of identification and subjectivization across a number of social and cultural practices, such as bodily appearances and sexualities, medical practices and popular scientific knowledge productions, the distinction between the virtual and the real, and visual cultures. The course explores how contemporary techno-theoretical frameworks can help us understand our manifold experiences in a globalized world. The course will provide interdisciplinary approaches (Gender Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, STS, Science Fiction) and it will raise issues of representation and agency in the new digital era.
 
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