Computing the Self: The Art and Philosophy of Digital Culture
James Draney
What does it feel like to live in data? To be tagged, tracked, followed, favorited, or rated? How has the datafication of everyday life shaped your social life, or altered the way you relate to yourself and others? Students in this class will ask what it means to see and be seen as a data object. To do so, you will analyze a variety of novels, stories, works of philosophy, psychology, and social science that have dramatized the questions posed above. The class will focus on several twenty-first-century novels and essays, with occasional forays back into the early twentieth century. You will pay special attention to the ways writers and artists use aesthetic and essayistic forms to think through, and intervene in, everyday life. Along the way, you will learn to write about the strangeness of your own computational encounters.
James Draney
What does it feel like to live in data? To be tagged, tracked, followed, favorited, or rated? How has the datafication of everyday life shaped your social life, or altered the way you relate to yourself and others? Students in this class will ask what it means to see and be seen as a data object. To do so, you will analyze a variety of novels, stories, works of philosophy, psychology, and social science that have dramatized the questions posed above. The class will focus on several twenty-first-century novels and essays, with occasional forays back into the early twentieth century. You will pay special attention to the ways writers and artists use aesthetic and essayistic forms to think through, and intervene in, everyday life. Along the way, you will learn to write about the strangeness of your own computational encounters.
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