Encountering Posthuman Bodies Through Science Fiction - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2016/17
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	deutsch
Weitere Links	Kommentar
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2016 - 10.11.2016 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	08:00 bis 10:00	wöchentlich	20.10.2016 bis 09.02.2017	1.19.1.16		22.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 29.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien

Kommentar	Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar". This seminar approaches posthuman bodies through science fiction literature. The posthuman(ist) understanding of bodies is mainly influenced by two factors: emerging (bio-)technologies and a changing relationship between humans and their animate and inanimate environment. As a result, the posthuman body is becoming a site of shifting borders. Since the body is increasingly considered a dynamic and hybrid machine and its former, alleged boundaries vanish, it can and needs to be fine-tuned and perfected through add-ons and enhancing methods. Former physical limitations vanish as it becomes an assemblage of organic and inorganic, of technological and natural circuits. This seminar studies representations of posthuman bodies, humans, androids, robots, etc., in ed science fiction writings. Science fiction as a genre does not only depict the reactions, hopes and fears towards technological progress and social, cultural, economic and ecological changes, but it is also informed by the current perception of living and working within an exploitative economy that is becoming ever more coercive in its disciplining methods on the body. Therefore, by relying on historical facts as well as political realities, science fiction can play with forecasting future realities and dramatically mirroring social conditions.

Kommentar

Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar".

This seminar approaches posthuman bodies through science fiction literature. The posthuman(ist) understanding of bodies is mainly influenced by two factors: emerging (bio-)technologies and a changing relationship between humans and their animate and inanimate environment. As a result, the posthuman body is becoming a site of shifting borders. Since the body is increasingly considered a dynamic and hybrid machine and its former, alleged boundaries vanish, it can and needs to be fine-tuned and perfected through add-ons and enhancing methods. Former physical limitations vanish as it becomes an assemblage of organic and inorganic, of technological and natural circuits. This seminar studies representations of posthuman bodies, humans, androids, robots, etc., in ed science fiction writings. Science fiction as a genre does not only depict the reactions, hopes and fears towards technological progress and social, cultural, economic and ecological changes, but it is also informed by the current perception of living and working within an exploitative economy that is becoming ever more coercive in its disciplining methods on the body. Therefore, by relying on historical facts as well as political realities, science fiction can play with forecasting future realities and dramatically mirroring social conditions.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2016/17 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024