Technomodifications and Models of Experience

The course is centered around the topic of conceivability of cyborg experience, which marks an intersection between philosophy of science and technology and philosophical anthropology.

The course is aimed at enhancing students’ ability to engage with a cutting-edge multidisciplinary area of expertise, both theoretically and practically. Experimentality is the central theme here: I provide the necessary preliminaries that make the entire theoretical framework comprehensible – and yet I will inevitably share with students a sense of awe and surprise, since Cyborg Studies don’t form a coherent disciplinary field and must be explored through action, not just by contemplating their fluctuating vocabularies.

The course includes elements of neuroscience, semiotics, philosophy of technology, phenomenology of perception, Theory of Mind and science art, thus requiring students to synthesize different modes of knowledge production and implement the resulting synthesis in a project.