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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

OMG, it’s the cryptic Cyborg Manifesto! One semester. 5 slots. One manifesto.

Type:
Theory seminar
Semester:
SoSe24
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
17.04.2426.06.24Mittwoch2-wöchentlich14:00 - 16:00Heumarkt 14, H.3.26
Typ
Start17.04.24
End26.06.24
DayMittwoch
Turnus2-wöchentlich
from-to14:00 - 16:00
LocationHeumarkt 14, H.3.26

Seminar description

Donna Haraway’s 1985 Cyborg Manifesto is going to turn 40 soon and is often regarded as the proto-cyberfeminist text. But the older the Manifesto gets, the more cryptic it seems to become. Will we be able to decode Haraway’s insinuations and allusions to 1980s politics, pop and protest culture? What was C3I again? Wtf are Harlequin romances? Does “Star Wars apocalypse” relate to George Lukas’ space opera or to something completely different? Who are the Greenham women and why are they witch-weaving? And what is witch-weaving anyways?

We will spend five sessions reading and deciphering the manifesto together. And if we’re feeling adventurous, we’re going to turn our findings into a little zine. Language will be mostly English, but there’s a German version of the text und es ist auch ok wenn Ihr im Seminar Deutsch oder Denglish sprecht. Dates: 1. 17.04.2024 2. 15.05.2024 3. 29.05.2024 4. 13.06.2024 5. 26.06.2024

Student office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14

50667 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 194 /

119 / 187 / 249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.


For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 21, 2024 until Feb. 14, 2025


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025

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