STS 6100 - [Borders Belonging Technoscience]

(crosslisted) ANTHR 6100

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 4 credits. Student option grading.

N. Tamarkin.

This seminar considers technologies of placemaking, with an emphasis on borders and belonging. It takes technology as something that is not self-evident as a category or form: rather, technology is approached as a concept that must be interrogated. For this reason, while much of the course focuses on technoscience and its intersections with borders and belonging, we begin instead with how ideas like the West, modernity, the nation-state, and borders work in and of themselves as technologies of place, belonging, exclusion, and violence. Topics include technologies of power, making and crossing borders, and placing technoscience.