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Inserito il - 03/04/2004 : 15:47:54
(Continua)
Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):
-the extensions of man and woman: from Marshall McLuhan to Donna Haraway
-the cyborg and the "posthuman": the work of N. Katherine Hayles and Bruno Latour
-bodies without organs (Artaud)/desiring machines (Deleuze and Guattari)
-cyborgs and social systems: Niklas Luhmann on media and "ecological communication"
-between biological and cultural systems: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
-rethinking Enlightenment rationality: between La Mettrie, deism, and the cyborg
-avatars and cybersex: desire, fragmentation and jouissance in cyberspace
-the hyperreal and the decay of lying: from Oscar Wilde to The Truman Show
-Lacanian cyberspace: the Imaginary and the Symbolic
-technomyths of fear and limitation: Icarus, Prometheus, and Pandora
-science/creation myths: Michelangelo's Creation of Adam to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
-reconfiguring the grotesque: monsters/hybrids from satyrs, centaurs and mermaids to cyborgs, androids, replicants, clones, and zombies
-cyborgs and hyperreality: Benjamin's aura, Debord's spectacle, Baudrillard's simulacrum
-deconstructing grand narratives: ecofeminism and narratives of empowerment -monstrosity in film: from The Island of Dr. Moreau to Jurassic Park and Monsters, Inc.
-technophilosophical utopias/dystopias: Zamyatin's We, Orwell's 1984, and their progeny
-cyborg fiction: Asimov, Clarke, Gibson, Ballard, Dick, Coupland, etc.
-prosthetics in literature/film from Edward Scissorhands to Luke Skywalker -cyber-environments, interactive/virtual realities: Tron, eXistenZ, Johnny Mnemonic
-prosthetics in reality from Gotz von Berlichingen to Stephen Hawking
-magical technologies: from Perrault's seven-league boots to Oz and the Tin Woodman's heart
-war, amputation, disability: the ethics of medical transplant/implant technology
-the avatars of Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall, Terminator, RoboCop, The Sixth Day
-the ethics of reproductive technology: genetic selection, cloning, and eugenics
-theorizing new technologies: Kevin Warwick, the VeriChip, "smart" clothing -chemical enhancement: from cosmetics and steroids to genetically modified foods
-cyborgs and superheroes: Spiderman, the Hulk, the X-Men, etc.
-Foucault's "political technology of the body": panopticism and cyborg ideologies
-city machines: Metropolis, Logan's Run, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky
-language-instinct machines: the work of Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, and Marvin Minsky
-monstrosity and decadence: Des Esseintes, and Bouvard and Pecuchet
-art and technology: from Futurism and Constructivism to Borofsky and Stelarc
Come vedete, la Cybersofia è cosa importante, transdisciplinare e internazionale :-))
agb
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