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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
Cyberpunk and Counternarrative:
Gibson, Stephenson, Pynchon, Powers
This course takes its departure in 'cyberpunk' literature - from William Gibson's classic Neuromancer (1984) to Neal Stephenson's hit Snow Crash (1992) and backed up as necessary by films like Blade Runner, Terminator and The Matrix - to investigate the role of technology and fiction as (counter)culture in the late-capitalist, post-industrial USA of the eighties and early nineties. This aspect of cultural and technological critique is also portrayed in Thomas Pynchon's novel of resistance from 1990, Vineland , and in Richard Powers' contrasting storylines about a group of virtual reality engineers and a captive of a foreign political system in Plowing the Dark (2000), which the course uses as examples of how the concerns of a specific literary genre are developed and treated in stylistically different ways.
The course uses the selected novels, films and some additional short stories as well as secondary texts by cultural and literary theorists to discuss both the aesthetics of the literary movement of cyberpunk and the postmodern and political strategies of technological counternarratives more broadly.
We shall identify how all four novels examine relations between human beings, technology and society, political systems of control, and questions of existence and consciousness at their deepest levels. We encounter virtual and alternative worlds or cultures (whether cyber-culture, techno-culture, or counter-culture), the systems-, gender- and social criticisms of which may not be as futuristic as cyberpunk imagery might imply. Areas for discussion in class could also include cyberculture and late capitalism, cyborgs, gender and technology, big science and the hacker hero, eco-war, conspiracy theory, philosophies of the posthuman and the place of spiritual values in a digitized world of surveillance.
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Inger H. Dalsgaard
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Students should order and acquire the four novels themselves, but additional set texts and supplementary readings will be provided in class.
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
