GSOC 5050 -

Institution:

The New School

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Description:

Time, Life, and Matter: Topics in the Histories of Science, Technology, and Media [A,B] Spring 2009. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course will be a preliminary survey of the latest methodological and theoretical approaches in science and media studies as they intersect with critical history and historiography. Topics to be covered will include histories of subjectivity, race, and gender in relationship to the life and information sciences; post-humanism; the production of "nature" and "culture" categories of analysis and structures for the production of historical time; and histories of representation and perception. Students read texts from science, history and philosophy of science, and media studies. Readings may include: Gilles Deleuze, Georges Canguilhem, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Fredrich Kittler, Hayden White, William James, Henri Bergson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, and others.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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