GWS 395

Fall 2008 All Classes

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Intermediate Topics GWS

Credit: 3 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 9 hours. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours.

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GWS 395 class schedule data for fall 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51986	Lecture-Discussion	MN	3:00PM -4:20PM	TR	433 Armory	Nguyen, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Section Info: Topic: Bodies and Technologies in Popular Culture This course will explore technologies' interpenetration with cultural production and the popular imaginary. In particular we will focus on how the concepts and categories of gender, race, sexuality, and nation are embodied in technologies and in visions of technologies, and conversely, how technologies and their visions shape our notions of gender, race, sexuality, and nation. At the human/machine interface, a series of transformations are imagined � whether feared or welcomed or both� for different purposes and to different effects. Some of the questions we will address include those changes in concepts of the "whole" body made possible by prosthetics and plastic surgeries; the material grounds for the production of technologies, including the contemporary global assembly-line; fantasies of the transcendent, technologized body and its failures in science fiction and film; notions of telepresence and mediated intimacy as new forms of technology claim to bring us "closer" to each other (e.g., MySpace); transformations of cultural work (and who counts as a cultural producer) made possible by new technologies of sampling, mash-ups, and digital video; histories of moral panics about youth and their uses of technologies; and how artists and cultural producers are reproducing or rearticulating notions about the human and the post-human, the mind and the body, in this technological imaginary. As such this course will give students the opportunity to critically assess the relations of gender, race, sexuality, and nation produced in the entanglement of technologies with domesticity, games, films, fiction, medicine, work, leisure, geopolitics, and the body.