Course content
The seminar covers both ‘classic’ thinking on technology as well as contemporary theories and analyses. It includes philosophical and theoretical reflections as well as concrete case examples from our contemporary organizations and individual lives. The seminar format requires a high student engagement in a small format (max. 30 students), which aims to ensure a lively learning environment. The seminar will make use of a dialogue-based learning atmosphere, centered on close discussion of the texts and subject matter, involving the students’ experiences in the dialogue. There is a requirement of oral student presentations and a short midterm essays to spur the intensity of the learning experience, which will also involve visual, aesthetic, and sensorial means. To this end, the seminar will include field visits, exposure to design and technological inventions, discussed in their philosophical, organizational, and ethical dimension. Possible field sites include The DTU Skylab, and Global Connect data center.
The course prioritizes classroom discussion and debate over lectures in order to help course participants to develop and to refine the kinds of communication, analysis, and presentation skills that will help them address increasingly significant role of technology in society, organizations, and our private lives.
Topics and themes covered in the course include: the nature of modern technology; how technology gives shape to organizational practices; the relationship between technology, power, and subjectivity; and how technology has become integral to the constitution of subjectivity.
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