Special Topics Research Seminar (525-0-22)

Topic

An Ethical Internet?

Instructors

Moya Z Bailey

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 1421: Tues 4:30PM - 7:20PM

Overview of class

How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and partial to its initial conceit yet this history is often forgotten and therefore remains unconnected to the current violence that this life changing technology has enabled around the world. While there can be no ethical engagement with the internet under capitalism, I do think there is a less harmful path for our web wandering to take, one that we will begin to explore in this experimental reimagining of the internet at the end of the anthropocene.

Class Materials (Required)

No textbook required.

Class Attributes

Graduate Students Only