PHI 412 - Manufacturing the Self: Technology, Desire and the Body

Institution:

Antioch University-Los Angeles

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Technology has had enormous influence over our lives, making many things easier, complicating others, and opening up new areas for ethical discussion. Yet little attention has been paid to how technology has shaped us as human beings: communication, sex, warfare, medicine, etc. This course considers issues such as visuality, speed, and mechanization and reflects on how technological development has altered understanding of the self, desire, and even our own bodies. Theorists considered include: Barthes, Sontag, Horkheimer, Adorno, Virilio, Heidegger, Postman and Stone. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antiochla.edu

Phone Number:

(310) 578-1080

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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