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Apr 19, 2024
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COML 4781 - Media Ecology and the Anthropocene(crosslisted) (also PMA 4781 , VISST 4781 ) Spring. 4 credits.
E. Obodiac.
This seminar will explore media ecology as both an “ecology without nature” and a principle of sustainability. If the anthropocene is understood as the first geological era in which a species-the human being-leaves a dramatic mark upon the geological record, it might be timely to think about the media archaeology of geomedia, i.e. both the earth’s own mediatic phenomena and the manner in which human media impact the earth. As Akira Lippit has noted, the proliferation of media technologies in the 20th century is co-extensive with the accelerated extinction of animal species. Our seminar will intersect concerns about the material ecology of media technologies with questions concerning emergent hybrid systems, intermediality, interspecies collaboration/gaming, genetic architecture, robotic construction systems, and computational swarm technologies.
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