Friday,
July 25 Sensory
(Dis)Ability and Technology
I. From representation
to incorporation
Instructor: Dr.
Lisa Cartwright
Required readings:
- Elizabeth
Grosz, "Lived Bodies," Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal
Feminism, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994,
62-85.
Recommended
readings:
- Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, "The Child's Relation with Others," trans. William
Cobb, The Primacy of Perception, Northwestern University Press, 1964,
96-155 (translation of "Les relations avec autrui chez l'enfant,"
from the series Cours de Sorbonne, Paris 1960)
Questions:
- How
can Grosz's phenomenology of the body (grounded in Merleau-Ponty) help us
to rethink the human subject's relationship to technology as an incorporated
and not external aspect of experience?
- What
does Grosz offer to theories of visual perception and experience beyond
the dominant paradims on visual culture studies currently?
II: Critique of theories
of the virtual and the prosthetic
Instructor: Dr.
Lisa Cartwright
Required readings:
- Jean
Baudrillard, trans. Arthur B. Evans, "Two Essays," Science
Fiction Studies, Volume 18, 1991, 309-329
- Sobchack, "Beating
the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of this Century Alive,"
Body and Society 1: 3-4, 1995, 205-214
- Sarah Jain, "The Prosthetic
Imagination: Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope," Science,
Technology, and Human Values Vol. 24, no. 1, Winter 1999 (31-54)
Recommended
readings:
- The
novel Crash, J.G. Ballard, 1973
- The
film adaptation: Crash, dir. David Cronenberg, 1996
Questions:
- How
might we rethink the virtual and new relationships to prosthetic technologies
in light of Sobchack's critique of Baudrillard?
- Consider
art practices geared toward experience and altered bodies in light of Sobchak's
critique.
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