We live in a world of nonhuman entities such as humanoid robots, driverless cars, and AI chatbots that don't just take on human labor but challenge what it means to be human!

Explores the way a film might be categorized as "queer," and the idea of cinematic queerness through frameworks of history, aesthetics, audience reception, and censorship, among other topics!

Examines how humans imagine, experience, and mediate the sky through cultural production, aerial and space technologies, and global infrastructures. You will watch: science docs, sci-fi films, & more!

We will engage with a constellation of films, TV shows, video art works, and social media content such as 

What have energy cultures been, and what might they look like? Examines cultural expressions and aesthetic formations across media forms, with an emphasis on electronic and digital media.

How do popular cultures encourage apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic thinking?  This course is a survef catastrophic imagining as they emerge in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

How can moving images represent capitalism? This course invites students to reflect on various aspects of capitalism as a system while posing the question of how to represent it. 

A survey of catastrophic imaginings as they emerge in the 20th and 21st centuries within film, television and online discourse.