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CYBER, VIRTUAL, AND HYPERREAL CULTURES (2 credit workshop)
Stressing the need for reassessment, these three conceptual starting places and the complicated differences among them will be explored as the grounds for 'other' than the so-called real.
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Vitanza, Victor J. (ed). CyberReader. 2/e. Allyn & Bacon. Boston, August 1998, 528 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0205290868. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Virilio, Paul. Open Sky Verso Books, New York and London. (August 1997) 144 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1859841813. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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POSTHUMANIST THEORY (3 credits)
An introduction to the influential thinking of Avital Ronell, with special consideration to her most recent book STUPIDITY. Ronell’s posthumanist oeuvre combines a ‘radical passivity’ with an ‘ethics of decision’ and allows for the experience of ‘depropriation’.
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