CULTURE, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CONTEXT

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This course examines select events, technologies, and works of art that have revolutionized or are revolutionizing ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. The approach will be interdisciplinary, engaging with works of art, architecture, technology, media, philosophy, and literature in terms of a specif revolutionizing event, technology, or work of art ( e.g. , “Global Warming,” “Cyborgs in Literature, Television, and Film,” “Women’s Revolutions in the Twenty-first Century," et al ). The course will provide students with the skills, background, and strategies necessary to engage in cultural critique and activism in a global context.