Topics in the History and Theory of the Media

Undergraduate catalogue

An upper-level seminar focused on a wide range of historical and theoretical issues in the history and theory of media. Previous topics have included Artificial Life; Reading Faces - Methods of Deciphering in Literature, Sciences and Art; Gramophone, Radio, MP3; The Diary: Writing the Self Technologies of/and the Body - Mediated Visions; and, Attention as a Technology of the Self. Taught in English.