Digital Teaching
The seminar will take place via Zoom. The link to this will be accessible online via Moodle.
Lehrinhalte
The seminar will discuss historical and systematic text on how discourses of optimization have affected notions of "being human" from the 18th century onward.
Literature
The litertature for the seminar will be uploaded on Moodle.
Official Course Description
In our everyday life we are surrounded by automated, self-regulated machines (smartphones, prostheses, etc.), these techniques are part of our lives and without them a human existence is no longer conceivable. So man needs technology for his life and survival. But how does this technology change people? How and with which techniques does it optimize itself?
Apart from the important possibilities of biomedical healing, the question must be asked in the seminar how our view of "man" and "machine" changes. How did man and technology change each other in modern enhancement, in which man intervenes with the machine in himself? What happens when man and technology merge and create new bodies (cyborgs, etc.)? The seminar will be about an assessment of our modern idea of man and machine, which is changing through trans- and posthumanistic visions. To this end, historical and current debates on optimization are to be addressed.
The seminar will take place via Zoom. The link to this will be accessible online via Moodle.
Lehrinhalte
The seminar will discuss historical and systematic text on how discourses of optimization have affected notions of "being human" from the 18th century onward.
Literature
The litertature for the seminar will be uploaded on Moodle.
Official Course Description
In our everyday life we are surrounded by automated, self-regulated machines (smartphones, prostheses, etc.), these techniques are part of our lives and without them a human existence is no longer conceivable. So man needs technology for his life and survival. But how does this technology change people? How and with which techniques does it optimize itself?
Apart from the important possibilities of biomedical healing, the question must be asked in the seminar how our view of "man" and "machine" changes. How did man and technology change each other in modern enhancement, in which man intervenes with the machine in himself? What happens when man and technology merge and create new bodies (cyborgs, etc.)? The seminar will be about an assessment of our modern idea of man and machine, which is changing through trans- and posthumanistic visions. To this end, historical and current debates on optimization are to be addressed.
- Lehrende: Kevin Liggieri
Semester: Inverno 2021/22