Schedule

1/17

1/19

1/24

1/26

1/31

2/2

2/7

2/9

2/14

2/16

2/21

The Obedient Worker

introduction

Homer (selections); Descartes: Meditations

Capek, R.U.R.

Huxley, Brave New World

Huxley, Brave New World

Asimov, The Complete Robot (selections)

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Esposito, Persons and Things: intro.

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Turing, "Computing Machinery"

Darling, "On Extending Rights to Robots"

Ovid, "Pygmalion"; Metropolis (1927)

Star Trek: "Little Girls,""Requiem," "I, Mudd"

Coppélia and Die Puppe (1919)

Her (2013)

Ex Machina (2015)

Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"

Searle, "Chinese Room"

Boden, "Escaping the Chinese Room"

paper 1 due

Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"

The Perfect Woman

2/23

2/28

3/2

3/7

Pinocchio

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Star Trek:TNG: "Most Toys" and "In Theory"

Star Trek:TNG: "Phantasms" and "Inheritance"

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Braidotti: "Post-Humanism"

Nagel, "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?"

Sloman, "Motives, Mechanisms, Emotions"

The Real Boy

3/9

3/14

3/16

3/21

3/23

3/28

3/30

4/4

4/6

Frankenstein (1931); Frankenstein (selections)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Blade Runner (1982)

—no class—

—no class—

Terminator 1 and 2 (1984, 1991)

Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries (2004)

Westworld (2016)

—more on Westworld!—

Boden, "Autonomy and Artificiality"

paper 2 due

Esposito, Persons and Things: persons

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Esposito, Persons and Things: things

Benjamin, "Work of Art"

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The Unjust Enemy

4/11

4/13

4/18

4/20

4/25

4/27

5/2

5/9

Orphan Black, season 1 (2013)

Orphan Black, season 1 (2013)

Äkta människor (Real Humans)

—no class—

Äkta människor (Real Humans)

Orphan Black, season 2 (2014)

Orphan Black, season 2 (2014)

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Esposito, Persons and Things: bodies

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Bostrom, "Defense of Posthuman Dignity"

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Gill-Peterson, "Technical Capacities"

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paper 3 due

Transhumanism