Jesse

In this course, we will think about what it is to be human and about how the human is being transformed by rapid advances in technology.

A haptic interface is one that engages our skin before our intellect, our body before our brain. Certain media devices could be described as peculiarly haptic (e.g., the Xbox Kinect or Apple’s iPad), but there is a way in which all media have the potential to be (or necessarily are) haptic.

Our first challenge will be to unpack the concepts of "queer" and "rhetoric," to create working definitions of our subjects, definitions that will likely evolve over the course of the semester.

The texts in this course will help us examine what it is to be human.

Our course begins by considering the nature of monstrosity, what monsters are, what they do, and what they mean.