Topics in the History and Theory of the Media: Technologies of/and the Body - Mediated Visions

The relationship between body and machinery, technology and biology is often thought in terms of the mechanical doll, the animated robot and other hybrid figures. Science fiction films offer double visions of the gendered body: women are masters/slaves of the technology and still symbolic bodies of the biological surviving of the human species. We will explore mediated visions in films and other media of different kinds spanning a bridge between SciFi-films and performance art, along with theoretical texts (like Haraway et al.) on the problem of the merging of technology and body.