DRAMA 160x - Surveillance, Performance, and Culture

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Through a mix of theoretical and practical explorations, introduces students to a range of social, political, and artistic applications of surveillance technologies in the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Beginning with foundational cultural theories of discipline and social subjecthood in modernity, we will examine surveillance technologies as tools of socio-political discipline, their ongoing impact, and contemporary theatre and performance work that engagess with and responds to them, for instance the work of the Surveillance Camera Players, the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and the Shunt Collective; Reality TV, social software systems such as Facebook, etc.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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