Interdepartmental 160 - DIGITAL EFFECTS

This class examines the effects of "going digital" since the introduction of the personal computer (1970s). As an introduction to this theme, we focus a range of interdisciplinary lenses onto the ethical and intellectual implications of "going digital" as it shapes thinking and making, playing and working, living and dying. Challenging standing notions of "digital nativity" and "the networked world," we study the limits imposed and possibilities opened by digital technologies and their effects on people, animals, plants and inorganic matter. Among the questions we ask: what are the effects of "the digital" on contemporary practices for engaging the global, for understanding bodies and creating identities, and the making of new knowledge and creative processes themselves. (E) S/U only.