- Teacher: Magali Roy-Fequiere
Category: Gender and Women's Studies
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- Teacher: Cyn Kitchen
Category: English
- Teacher: Cyn Kitchen
Category: English
Michel Foucault’s work analyzes the functioning of power as a field of relations within a set of social practices involving, characteristically, sexuality, policing, punishment, race, and mental illness, among other things. He is particularly interested to describe the development of these practices in order to make clear how their domains were created as the subjects of scientific discourse and in terms of which truth claims could be made. In this course, we track the development of Foucault’s theorizing the power relations that structure social practices and the truth claims that can be made about their domains. We end by considering Foucault’s late turn to ethics and the philosophical practices of the ancient world in light of his interest in the complex relations between power and truth.
- Teacher: Daniel Wack
Category: Philosophy
- Teacher: Petko Kitanov
Category: Mathematics
- Teacher: Huseyin Uysal
Category: Educational Studies
- Teacher: Huseyin Uysal
Category: Educational Studies
Our technological prowess has opened vistas for humanity to dream bigger, or perhaps it has simply revealed the cosmically (comically?) short timeframe of human existence and hence led us to imagine new ways for that existence to end. Extinction or evolution, one way or the other humanity is poised for transition. Will climate change force us to colonize other planets? Will we merge with machines by adding cyborg implants or, more radically, uploading our minds into robotic bodies?
The fear of human extinction and the promise of radical salvation through technology intertwine in a religious worldview unique to the contemporary world. We will explore this worldview and discuss the political and social implications of transferring our religious impulses and hope of salvation into technological forecasting.
- Teacher: Robert Geraci
Category: Religious Studies