STS 357
Spring 2026
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01
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| Crosslisting:
ENVS 357 |
This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and robotics. Students will critically engage with "generativity" as a social theoretical concept: as a structural effect of capitalist accumulation, as a metaphor for creativity, and as an ethos for futures of care. The course begins with texts in the history of technology that examine the extraction of labor and environmental resources to power artificial systems under racial capitalism. Students will engage with feminist cyborg studies to consider how categories and classifications of humanity and intelligence have organized techniques of resource extraction. The seminar continues with contemporary scholarship on the constructions of intimacy and affect in social robotics and care infrastructures. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Environmental Studies Minor)(Environmental Studies)(Science and Technology Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
| Instructor(s): Thakor,Mitali Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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