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Veranstaltungen von Laura Hille
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The Body as Interface (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Laura Hille
Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 10.04.2025 - 22.05.2025 | HMS D22
Einzeltermin | Do, 05.06.2025, 09:45 - Do, 05.06.2025, 13:15 | HMS 211/215
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 19.06.2025 - 03.07.2025 | HMS D22
Inhalt: When we think about interfaces, we traditionally envision screens, dashboards, websites, and apps. But what happens when the body itself becomes an interface? How is the body envisioned, calculated, and edited? What are the interfaces of our fingers, skin, or genes? This seminar explores the intersection of media, technology, and the body, examining how contemporary and historical practices render the human body an interface for information, measurement, and control. Drawing from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the course critically engages with the informatisation of the human. Key theoretical frameworks include Trans- and Posthumanism, biometrics, and body politics. By analyzing contemporary media practices alongside historical precedents, students will develop a critical understanding of how technologies mediate and redefine human existence. Through close readings, case study analyses, and class discussions, the course provides conceptual tools to interrogate the body as both a site of agency and an object of technological intervention. *** First readings: Distelmeyer, Jan. 2018. “Drawing Connections – How Interfaces Matter” In: Interface Critique, Vol.1, https://interfacecritique.net/journal/volume-1/distelmeyer-drawing-connections/ Ferrando, Francesca. 2015. „The Body“. In: Ranisch, Robert, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Eds.) Post- and Transhumanism. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 213-226, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca-Ferrando/publication/304675451_The_Body/links/582b54ba08ae004f74afb054/The-Body.pdf Case study examples: Wentz, Daniela. 2023. „Through the autism glass. Behaviourist Interfaces and the (Inter)action order. In: Interface Critique, Vol. 4, p. 87–93, https://doi.org/10.11588/ic.2023.4.93412. Chan, Anita Say. 2025. Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future. Berkeley: University of California Press. Rosenbaum, Susanna, und Ruti Talmor. 2022. „Self-Care“. In: Feminist Anthropology, Vol 3(2), p. 362–72, https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12088.