Dialogues on Feminism and Technology
Instructors: Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Losh
Assignments:
One blog comment (200-250 words)
One Wikistorming entry (revision or new entry)
One object (prototype, zine, map, exhibit, assemblage, craft object, etc.)
One boundary object video or audio recording (interview, essay, vlog, digital storytelling, demo, etc. )
One literature review, book review, or annotated syllabus
Schedule
1 Wed Apr 03 Introduction
Balsamo, "Designing Learning"
Bowker and Star, Ch 9 "Categorical Work and Boundary Structures"
2 Wed Apr 10 Posthumanism (Losh)
Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, Prologue and Chapters 1-2
Barad, "Living in a Posthumanist Material World" (in Bits of Life)
3 Tue Apr 16 Tools, Biopolitics (Cartwright)
Clarke and Fujimora, "What Tools? Which Job? Why Right?"
Takeshita, "The IUD as Technoscientific Biopower"
Vora, "Limits of 'Labor'"
4 Wed Apr 24 Feminist ethnographic research methods and ethics
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds, "Ten Myths" (29-51); "Ethics" 129-15)
Viswesweran, "Defining Feminist Ethnography" and "Feminist Ethnography as Failure"
Pink, "Preparing for Sensory Research"
5 Wed May 01 Affect, Animacy, Queer Intelligence (Cartwright)
Wilson, Affect and Artificial Intelligence (2011), "Shaming AI" and "The Machine Has No Fear"
Chen, Ch 3 "Queer Animality" in Animacies
Halberstam, Ch 1 and 6 in the Queer Art of Failure
6 Wed May 08 Machines, Assemblages (Losh)
Suchman, Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Second Ed)
Hayles, "Desiring Agency"
Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (Course Link)
7 Wed May 15 Labor, the Political (Losh)
Losh, Virtualpolitik, Chapters 8 & 10
Sassen, "Digital Networks and the State"
8 Wed May 22 Race, Classification, Boundary structures (Cartwright)
Chen, Introduction, Ch 1 :Mattering Humans" and Ch 5 "Lead's Racial Matters" in Animacies
Bowker and Star, Ch 6 "The Case of Race Classification"
Magnet, When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity Ch 1-4 and conclusion
Nakamura, "Economics of Digital Production in East Asia" and Now Visual Culture talk
9 Wed May 29 Systems, Information (Losh)
Flanagan, "Playing House" and "Critical Computer Games" (Course Links)
Ludica, "Playing Dress-up" and "Hegemony of Play"
10 Wed Jun 05 Life, Matter, Media (Cartwright)
Kember and Zylinska, "Mediation and the Vitality of Media" in Life After New Media