Topics in Anthropology (Half-Term): Technoscience and Technopolitics in an Age of AI

This seminar provides a programmatic overview of anthropological and feminist science and technology studies (STS) approaches to the exploration of AI, computing, automation, and related technologies as key touchstones through which categories of the human and matrices of power are reproduced, reformulated, or otherwise pressed into tension. Through a genealogical lens, we review how feminist STS scholars, anthropologists, and others have theorized and ethnographically studied the social life of "human-like" technologies, forwarding considerations of labor, political economy, gender, sexuality, race, disability, nation, and empire.