Communication 790T - TechnoImaginariesMajorityWorld

This course examines how technological artifacts remain integral to dreaming up futures, particularly in moments of uncertainty and turmoil. Students will read scholarship on temporality, globalization, post/de colonial studies, social construction of technology, among others, and examine sources from literature, art, film, etc. Primary focus is on people and places outside the United States and Western Europe, particularly postcolonial Africa and Asia.