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 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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