SOC 1421 - BODY POLITICS: TECHNOLOGIES, DISABILITY, DIFFERENCE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
My body is different from yours. Our bodies work as markers of difference. Our bodies have different capacities, powers, and abilities. Our bodies incorporate technologies, prostheses, extensions. The limitations of our bodies have, for some time, been something simply to overcome. We think we can overcome the limitations of our body physiology through technology. Plugging in, reconfiguring. Our bodies, like our minds, are supposedly plastic, capable of rewiring and change. Like upgrading an app, we work on our bodies and sculpt them at the gym. We work with our bodies in the workplace, feel fatigue, exert effort. We subject our bodies to surveillance at work, in urban spaces, in civic protests. Our bodies are increasingly machine-readable. Our bodies are being shaped by automation on factory floors and in warehouses, sensed and tracked by surveillance technologies. Our bodies will increasingly interact with, and be replaced by, robots.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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