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Presentation
Presentation
We seek to understand cyberculture as a framework to think about how the Human relates to the technics or the artificial and, through this relation, projects his hopes, his fears, his conception of History and the future, and the limits of what he constantly seeks to stabilize as the real. In this sense, the cyberculture theory also affirms itself as a privileged framework to think about how the Human conceives itself.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 6
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
2 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULP451-2376
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Cyberculture and Fiction
Literature, cinema and the images of technique: extrapolation and speculation
Utopias and Dystopias
Science fiction as critical theory
2. Materialities of Communication
The technical mediation of the experience
Speed and Interfaces
The subject as product of information design
3. Dimensions of Cyberspace
Technical space (evolution)
Metaphorical space and virtuality
Counter-space (cyberpunk) and political space
4. The cyborg as a cultural figure
Hybridization as a political paradigm (Donna Haraway)
Organic / Inorganic: Critique of Dualisms
The informatics of domination or the possibility of the restart
5. The Post-human
Crisis of the classic notion of Human
Critique of transhumanism and bioconservatism
New perspectives: new materialism and meta-humanism
6. Artificial Intelligence
Historical background
Mythology of the robot
From the Turing Test to the "machine learning"
7. The Anthropocene
Smart cities
Geo-constructivism: the Earth as an operating system
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Objectives
Objectives
- Understand and characterize the concepts that support the Cyberculture theory, contextualizing them according to their historical and global context
- Understand the notion of Cyberculture as a cultural perspective in which is founded a fictional and theoretical imaginary on the limits of nature and the human, on the veracity of the perception of reality and on a critical spirit of anticipation, in which expectations and fears are reflected about the technical progress
- Problematize the technological condition of contemporaneity, identifying the transformations and impacts caused by digital technologies
- Reflect on the redefinition of the perception of the Human, his sensitivity, his physical and cognitive metamorphoses, his communication conditions and his possibilities of production of experience.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
in definition.
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References
References
Bell, D.; Kennedy, B. [2000]. The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge.
Benedikt, M. [1991] Cyberespace: First Steps. The MIT Press.
Costa, Pedro Rodrigues [2013]. Entre o Ver e o Olhar: Ecos e Ressonâncias ecrãnicas. Braga: Universidade do Minho (tese de doutoramento)
Dubey, G.; Jouvancourt, P. [2018] Anthropocène et Numérisation du Monde. Paris: Éditions Dehors.
Haraway, D. [1991] Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Free Association Books
Hayles, N. K. [1999]. How We Became Posthuman. University of Chicago Press
Levy, P. [1999]. Cibercultura. São Paulo: Editora 34.
Turing, A; Girard, Jean-Yves [1995] La machine de Turing. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Turner, F. [2006] From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
