STS 160

Ghosts of the Machine: How Technology Rewires our Senses

Historical, aesthetic and critical approaches to how information technologies produced ghost effects or a sense of terror in response to new media like the photograph, gramophone, film, typewriter, computer, Turing Machine. Focus on technological media transforms sense perception. (Same course as TCS 160.)

Units: 4.0

Hours: Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1 hour(s).