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Attention Northwestern folks, I’m offering this grad seminar again! Preregistration starts Monday!
the Imperial Internet is a graduate seminar course offered in fall 2025 under the course codes MTS 525 and COMM ST 425. It will be held on Thursday from 2pm until 4:50pm. Course description: From its early days, the internet was imbued in liberatory and democratizing promises. Yet, it was constructed with a set of desires, namely, of American elites, and is situated within a set of unequal relationships. In this class, we will examine the links between the internet and imperialism–the ideological and material expressions of conquest and domination, which divide the world between zones of extraction and centers of capital. We will be discussing different facets of the internet: from its history and material infrastructures, to its culture and labor relations, and its design and uses. The course will include readings on surveillance, content moderation, predictive algorithms, AI targeting systems, creative uses to counteract censorship and critique politics, as well as foundational texts on technology and imperialism and post/colonialism.
May 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🎤🎤 Are there any undergraduate students on here? If you know any Northwestern students, please share my new class w them!
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Tomatoes are happening!
July 9, 2023 at 11:14 PM