21A.500/STS.075 Technology and Culture
Spring 2014
Professors: Stefan Helmreich, Heather Anne Paxson
TA: Canay Ozden-Schilling
Lecture: R10-12 (56-180)
Course Description:
This 9-unit subject examines relationships among technology,
culture, and politics in a range of social and historical settings.
Does technology save us work? Improve our health? Ameliorate social
inequality? We organize this class around two topics: identity and
infrastucture. How does thinking of our bodies and selves as
technologies shape our ideas and experiences of cultural and
personal identity? How are politics built into our infrastructures,
from roads to electricity grids to the Internet and beyond? We will
be interested in whether technology has produced a better world,
and for whom.
Announcements
Presentations
Please upload your slides
here. Thanks!
Announced on 13 May 2014 9:37 a.m. by Canay Ozden-Schilling
TA office hours: M 12:30-2:30
I'm holding office hours every Monday between 12:30-2:30
PM in E53-335K (the conference room at the Anthropology
Department). If you had to miss a class, just drop by and I'll
be more than happy to catch you up with class discussions. When the
time nears, you are also encouraged to come discuss your paper
ideas - and I'll gladly talk with you about writing
techniques.
Announced on 20 February 2014 5:18 p.m. by Canay Ozden-Schilling
