General Education: DSHU and SCIS
Instructor: Jonathan Auerbach
Description: How do we initially understand new
technologies, and how do these modern instrumentalities in turn
represent us? This course seeks to address this double-edged question by
looking at a series of nineteenth-century American,
French, German, and British novels and stories from Frankenstein (1818)
to Dracula (1897) featuring recently introduced media and inventions
such as photographs, phonographs, automata, and motion pictures that are
themselves (like works of literature) concerned
with reproducing "reality," including recording various aspects of the
human body and human consciousness.
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