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''First meeting: ''October 21, 10:00 @ DBL | ''First meeting: ''October 21, 10:00 @ DBL | ||
'''Description:''' | |||
In the science fiction film Tron (1982), an orange is scanned by a laser beam in order to be transferred into a virtual computer world. At the end of this “Matter Transform Sequence”, the orange has disappeared—its digital image appears on the screen instead. The promise of this fictional technology: the total capture and modeling of the bio-logical world, in order to make it manipulable, controllable, and available at will on a data-logical level. | In the science fiction film Tron (1982), an orange is scanned by a laser beam in order to be transferred into a virtual computer world. At the end of this “Matter Transform Sequence”, the orange has disappeared—its digital image appears on the screen instead. The promise of this fictional technology: the total capture and modeling of the bio-logical world, in order to make it manipulable, controllable, and available at will on a data-logical level. | ||
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'''Preliminary schedule: ''' | |||
<u> | '''Literature list:''' | ||
<u>Basic/main readings: </u> | |||
* Bruno Latour – Circulating Reference (EN) | Zirkulierende Referenz (DE) | |||
* Georg Trogemann – Das vermessene Leben | |||