CRITICAL THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP
This research group will continue the Intermedia Research Studio’s critical interrogation of technological intermediations of contemporary global society. Through key readings, we will examine and discuss technological environments and theorize their urban prosthetic forms, their planetary violences, their collective ecstasies and their shaping of contradictory identities and practices. For more information contact Sourayan Mookerjea at sourayan@ualberta.ca
Meetings will be held in Tory 1-063 at 4:30pm on the following days:
September 12th and 26th,
October 10th and 31st
November 7thand 21st, and
December 5th.
Readings
Fall 2019
September 26th, 2019
Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto”
Jane Bennet, “Preface” to Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Fall / Winter 2018-19