Course Description

This course deals with two related descriptions of contemporary culture: the posthuman and the global. A few questions to be asked are: Can we think of the global in terms of a new kind of collectivity defined by "posthuman" relations? What kind of cultural practice is possible in an age of globalized "industrialization" of memory? In what sense can we say that such destruction of individuation is accompanied by a corresponding disabling of collective (transindividual) agency, perhaps in the same way as the human and the posthuman can be said to be locked in mutuality? By attempting to answer such questions, we aim to propose a concept of the global, including but not limited to what is usually called "globalization," as distributed repetition of the local.