HIS1007H: Theories, Histories, Imaginaries: Themes in Technoscience

This course draws on theoretical, historical, and creative texts to explore an annual theme relevant to the study of technoscience. The theme this year is temporality and futures. The course examines questions of time, chronicity, pasts, remainders, futures, speculation, anticipation, cycles, forecasts, aftermaths, apocalypse, development, genealogy other figurations of time, particularly as they relate to histories of technoscience, life, ecology, colonialism, and capitalism. The course takes up these questions with an emphasis on the recent past and the contemporary and through readings from interdisciplinary and theoretical scholarship with an emphasis on feminist, postcolonial, critical-race, queer, political economic orientations.

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