Class Cyberculture

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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1. Cyberculture and Fiction Literature, cinema, and the images of technology: extrapolation and speculation: utopias and dystopias 2. Materialities of Communication Technical mediatization, speed, and the design product 3. Dimensions of Cyberspace Technical and metaphorical space Counter-space (cyberpunk) and political space 4. The Cyborg as a Cultural Figure Hybridity as a political paradigm Organic/Inorganic The informatics of domination or the possibility of beginning anew 5. At the Dawn of This New World     5.1. Alone and with Nothing: We Remain at the End of Each Screenic Act...     5.2. The Captured Subject     5.3. The Somnambulistic Imitator and the Bubble-Subject     5.4. Absurd, Vigilant, Apathetic, Hasty: Homo Reactivus 6. The Posthuman Crisis of the classical notion of the Human. Transhumanism and bioconservatism New materialism and metahumanism 7. Artificial Intelligence From the Turing Test to "machine learning" 8. The Anthropocene Smart cities and geo-constructivism  

Use the lecturer's book as the starting point for an exploration of the overall dynamics of cyberculture.

Bell, D.; Kennedy, B. [2000]. The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge.   Benedikt, M. [1991] Cyberespace: First Steps. The MIT Press.   Costa, Pedro Rodrigues (2026). Homo Reactivus: consequências da cibercultura para um novo mundo. Húmus.    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.