Media Futures: Posthumanism and Afrofuturism
November 19:
Readings:
- Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman
Topics: posthumanism, social media, media futures
Activities: downloading your Facebook data; archive web pages with the Wayback Machine
November 21:
Topics: Afrofuturism, black aesthetics, science fiction
Activities (in class): John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History
Dead Media 