Media and the Body

Art show poster from the Savannah College of Art and Design

This week we are discussing issues around the interaction between media and the body. The reading for this week is Oryx and Crake,  a novel by Margaret Atwood.  In this novel a post-human future is considered and described as well as the transition to that future.  In the 21st century a post-human future seems not only inevitable but even imaginable as a near term reality. Perhaps a post-human evolution is the only way we can adapt to the large changes humans are making in the environment. Please bring your notebook computers to this week's class as we attempt a few in-class research and response projects to look at current aspects of the body and its relation to media. We will look at some of the ways the body has become a medium.

The writing assignment for this week will be to post an image that you think summarizes some aspect of the relationship between media and the body. Write a post of approx. 350 words describing and/or commenting on the relationship you have observed.