The Revolution Will Be Digitized [2 unit(s) – ]

From Gill-Scott Heron\’s \”The Revolution Will Not be Televised\” to Norbert Wiener\’s cybernetics to Egypt\’s Tahrir Square uprising to the power of Black Twitter to the Black Panther Party to post-work societies and beyond. In this course, students will explore the societal impacts of technology by examining how race, socioeconomics and power have historically operated in America, ways those tactics are being embedded into technology today and potentially into the future, and navigate geo-politics through a second-wave cybernetics lens. By the end of the course, students will engage in speculative practices to design equitable technoculture futures. This course is designed to be a seminar, combining research, theory and practice with the help of guest speakers and roundtable discussions on readings.

ITPG-GT.2064.1 () | Instructor: Ari Melenciano | Syllabus | Mon 12:10pm to 2:40pm | Meeting Pattern: 7-First Half | Start Date