Ontotechnologies of the Body
Code
722011069
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Fernando Cascais
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
By the end of the course, students are expected to:
a) understand the specificity of modern technoscience ando f the technoscientific shaping of the bodies at a level that allows for the developing of skills acquired at graduate level;
b) have acquired the ability to apply their knowledge about technoscience and the technoscientific shaping of bodies to solving problems in unfamiliar situations, in expanded multidisciplinary contexts;
c) have acquired the ability to integrate knowledge, deal with complex issues, design solutions and utter critical judgements in situations of limited information regarding modern technoscience;
d) have acquired the ability to communicate their conclusions and the reasonings underlying them both to experts and laypeople in a clear and unambiguous manner;
e) have acquired lifelong learning skills in a self-driven and autonomous manner.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Modern technoscience and the shaping of the body
1.1 Antropotechnics and sociotechnics: Leroi-Gourhan
1.2 Philosophies and sociologies of the body: corporeality, civilizing process, habitus
1.3 The panoptic dispositif in Michel Foucault
1.4 The dispositif of sexuality in Michel Foucault
1.5 Biopolitics - Michel Foucaul, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito
1.6 Biotechnoscientific shaping of the body and the post-human condition
1.7 The biotecnoscincies and subjectivation processes: From Donna Haraway to queer theory
Bibliography
Agamben, Giorgio (1998), O poder soberano e a vida nua. Homo sacer. Lisboa: Editorial Presença
Cascais, António Fernando (2009), O que é um dispositivo?, in António Fernando Cascais, Nuno Nabais e José Luís Câmara Leme (orgs.), Lei, Segurança, Disciplina. Trinta anos depois de Vigiar e punir de Michel Foucault. Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, pp. 31-53
Esposito, Roberto (2010), Bios. Biopolítica e filosofia. Lisboa: Edições 70
Foucault, Michel (1984), Vigiar e punir. Petrópolis: Vozes, 3ª ed.
Foucault, Michel (1977), A vontade de saber. Lisboa: Edições António Ramos
Teaching method
The teaching methodologies consist of the oral presentation and powerpoint presentation of the syllabus contents (75%), of the presentation and critical discussion and analysis of empirical case-studies with the help of audiovisual and digital support, and the analysis and discussion of each students research essays, presented in class (25%).
Evaluation method
The descriptive memory of the final research to be presented, analyzed and discussed in class will be evaluated (25%), as well as the essay or final written research report (75%).