60-369 Critical Studies: DEEP FAKE, AI and Beyond: Posthumanism & Contemporary Art

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Is Posthumanism just another kind of humanism Is the idea of difference at risk when thought is no longer attached to a body What are the possibilities of imagining a queer phenomenology or a transhumanism that challenges the limits placed on gendered, sexualized, racialized and socalled able bodies How are our concepts of affect and authenticity being transformed by ideas ofrobotic and artificial intelligenceWhat are the various forms of subjectivities generated by machinelearning enabled media How are constructions of cheapfakes, shallowfakes, and deepfakes posing ethical dilemmas in information and worldmaking landscapes This seminar hopes to excavate such questions and many more produced by examining the competing and shared perspectives developed by contemporary artists and critical theorists across posthumanist, transhumanist and new materialist paradigms.

Prerequisites: none listed

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