Announcing my Spring doctoral seminar on The Politics of Code. The course is open to all doctoral students at NYU, plus consortium students in the NYC area. Contact me if you have questions.
The Politics of Code
This doctoral seminar focuses on political analyses of computational media. We begin with an overview of cybernetics, information theory, systems theory, distributed networks, and theories of postmodernity. Next, we examine the rise of immaterial labor in the service economies and the extension of codified labor practices into the realm of daily life. The seminar will also consider the ramifications of data capture and the formation of coded objects and bodies. Finally, we explore networked struggle and, through it, a political theory of the present moment. The course will favor both close readings of specific technologies as well as social and cultural claims about the computer age.