Courses

Current Courses

Department of Media Studies and Film, The New School:

Course Webpage, Fall 2008
MEDIA STUDIES: IDEAS
This course is required of all first-year Media Studies students; students may be advised to take the course either concurrently with or in the semester after Understanding Media Studies. Media Studies: Ideas overviews the major schools of academic thought that have had an influence on the field of Media Studies, as they pertain to three central themes: Media and Power, Media and Technology, and Media and Aesthetics. The historical and philosophical roots of the discipline are emphasized through a wide variety of readings, discussions, and academic writing assignments. This course replaces Foundations of Media Theory.

 

Past Courses

Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University:

Course Webpage, Spring 2008
01:730:329. MINDS, MACHINES, AND PERSONS(3)
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy.
Comparison of the nature of the human mind and that of complex machines. Consequences for questions about the personhood of robots.

 

Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois:

Introduction to Ethics

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Scientific Reasoning

 

Film Series:

Love, War & Robots Film Series, Curator: Peter Asaro, March-July, 2007, Location: HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden.

 

Cybernetics and the 1960s Film Series, Curators: Peter Asaro and Andy Pickering, October, 2004-March, 2005, Location: UIUC Gregory Hall & Hill Street.