About the course

In this course students participate in a speculative and futuristic discourse that help them to expand approaches to, and understandings of, culture. Here students will be encouraged to theorise exploratively, and to engage with both old and new visions of the human.

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

General eligibility requirements + English 6.

A minimum of 60 Higher Education Credits

Selection

University credits completed 100%

Course literature

• Ferrando, Francesca. Philosophical Posthumanism. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

• Haraway, Donna J. Stayin with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.

• Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz. On Transhumanism. Penn State University Press, 2020.

• Bruno Latour. Down to Earth –Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Paris: Polity, 2018.

• Westerlaken, Michelle. Imagining Multispecies Worlds. Doctoral dissertation at Malmö University, 2020.

• Additional scholarly articles, as well as fictional and artistic works, will be added.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Contact

This education is provided by

Faculty of Culture and Society

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