EPHEMERALITY AND DURABILITY: INTERROGATING THE ENDURING VALUES OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
In the ever-evolving worlds of media and technology, what has proven to have enduring value in our everyday lives? How have new technologies irreversibly transformed our ways of communicating, relating, networking and understanding each other and the world around us? How have they not? In what ways should we question the decentering of our humanness in relation to these technologies? In this collaborative spring 2021 Polymathic Pizza series with the Ahmanson Lab and Sidney Center, we will engage our critical thinking and haptic approaches on the ephemerality and durability of select technologies that have transformed our lives and values…or maybe not so much?
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