Course Syllabus (SP19) COLI 214B--Literature & Society: "A.I. and Other Radical Humanisms in Cyberpunk and Science Fiction"

Authors

Christopher Southward, Binghamton University--SUNYFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/

0000-0001-5782-202X

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

Spring 2019

Keywords

artificial intelligence, technology, humanism, science fiction, cyberpunk, aesthetics, modes of production

Abstract

Course Description:

As that which we call “technology” continues to evolve as both concept and practice, we discover ever more inventive ways to answer its call, and science fiction seems to serve as a universal standpoint from which global societies manage to confront, question, and reimagine the nature of our shared humanity as a radically technical relation. While the growing social pervasiveness of artificial intelligence and the attendant encoded transformations of “the human” appear, together, to form a relatively absolute horizon of political thinking, social agency, and aesthetic experience, it seems certain that our current crisis also offers us possibilities to create more open and egalitarian interpersonal, intercultural, international, and interspecies modes of existence. Our task this semester will be to imagine, think, and explore such possibilities and prepare to activate them within our current and future historical present.

Comments

Course designed and taught as adjunct instructor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York

Recommended Citation

Southward, Christopher, "Course Syllabus (SP19) COLI 214B--Literature & Society: "A.I. and Other Radical Humanisms in Cyberpunk and Science Fiction"" (2019). Comparative Literature Faculty Scholarship. 16.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/comparative_literature_fac/16

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