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Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-06 Negotiating User Identities Under Techno-Plutocratic Structures - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-06 Negotiating User Identities Under Techno-Plutocratic Structures - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-06 Negotiating User Identities Under Techno-Plutocratic Structures
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Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-3-SpecMo-06
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 24
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin Dienstag, 21.10.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Ort: GW2 B1630
Art/Form Seminar
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

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GW2 B1630
Dienstag: 12:15 - 13:45, wöchentlich (13x)

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This MA-level seminar is located on the nexus of literary, cultural, and media studies and tries to understand the effects of technologized societies on (i) political governance and (ii) shaping user identities. Departing from the assumption that our societies are increasingly embedded under techno-plutocratic structures, i.e. layered systems of violent control in which our freedom to freely inhabit the Earth and use the planet’s resources is constantly usurped by a privileged elite or powerful individuals who possess both immense wealth and a monopoly on technology, the seminar attempts to complicate the identity of the user. Understanding users as dynamic and multi-dimensional agents existing on a continuum of experts and lay-persons who are themselves embedded in techno-plutocratic structures, the seminar will explore how users take on and perform different roles that either reinforce or challenge techno-plutocratic structures. This seminar is planned to be an interactive and research intensive seminar where students will work on specific case studies/small projects to answer several questions posed by the seminar. Examples of questions that the seminar will explore include: how does literature and film depict techno-plutocratic structures? How do social media platforms participate in reinforcing or challenging techno-plutocratic structures? How do users on social media platforms inhabit and/or negotiate different identities or roles that resist or affirm techno-plutocratic structures? How is violence exercised in techno-plutocratic structures? What role does AI play in the techno-plutoctratic turn? How do we historicize and contextualize techno-plutocratic structures? How do billionaires leverage wealth, hubris, and technological expertise to capture the state? How does the extraction of resources (for eg water, energy, land, minerals) feature under techno-plutocratic structures? How do existing forms of oppression such as settler colonialism and patriarchy metamorphize under techno-plutocratic structures and how are they resisted? How are notions of love and kindness expressed under techno-plutocracy? How do different users and speculative fiction envision alternative futures to techno-plutocratic societies? Note that this seminar has a heavy reading load and in addition to reading the mandatory literary texts and watching the assigned film, we will also have weekly readings of theoretical texts and other secondary sources. We will also work with social media data and other forms of data as required. First day of class is on 21.10.2025. Please consult Handout_01 to see the list of literary texts_film that you will be required to read/watch for this seminar. Handout_01 is available for download here: http://unihb.eu/LWg1C6Ga I strongly advise that you acquire the assigned novels before the Winter semester commences. An email containing further information and a tentative syllabus for this seminar will be circulated before first day of class. You will be expected to complete your assignments (graded or ungraded) according to the requirements of your specific module. If you are already enrolled in this seminar and no longer wish to participate please cancel your participation so that your spot can be offered to someone else. If you have questions pertaining to the seminar that cannot wait until the start of the Winter semester you can email me at nyangulu@uni-bremen.de

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