<div dir="ltr">Hi Sherryl,<div><br></div><div>I hope you're well! Thanks for reaching out with this.</div><div>(Eric, that sounds like such a great course - I wish I could take it).</div><div><br><div>I'm teaching one course each quarter that SFSC students would be interested in. Each course is listed under a generic course name for now (and I'm working on getting each listed under their own course tities/numbers in the future). Here are two brief descriptions:</div><div><br><div>WINTER I'll be teaching the MCS Senior Seminar (MCS 134) on "Imagining Extreme Environments." </div><div><ul><li>This course looks at histories, narratives, and technologies of perception as they are recast in extreme environments. A focus on extreme environments -"extremis" as the last point of life, the end of it, outside of it, or beyond it - brings us to analyze the specificity of their conditions (thermatics, pressure, saturation, whiteouts, weightlessness, and so on) as they shape the work of thinking, narrating, sensing, and transmitting. We explore both past and contemporary projects to reimagine habitability and rebound life in the contexts of inhospitable worlds. </li></ul></div><div>SPRING I'm teaching MCS /ENG 146F (listed under Technologies of the Visual) I am teaching "Elemental Media" again. We've done this one with SFCS before, but <font face="arial, sans-serif">here is a short excerpt from the syllabus as a quick refresher: </font></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">How can thinking through an elemental matter, like
dust, tell us about the experience of time, labor, and the body in contemporary media cultures? What is concealed by the insubstantial language of "the cloud" (as in cloud computing) and why might </span>one be better<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> off looking down into the earth, rather than up to the skies, to study it? Media culture relies on being able to draw on metaphors, systems, processes, and materials of the elemental world; for example, while the internet is often imagined as an ethereal network, it is only made possible by the existence of the ocean,
and complex AI systems would not exist without legions of offshored and exploited laboring bodies. This course cultivates a materialist literacy around media, examining media as human/technology/nature formations. Through this, we retheorize core concepts of media studies by examining media in its inseparability from the elemental world.</span></li></ul><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best wishes to all,</font></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gloria</font></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 5:21 PM Eric Schwitzgebel <<a href="mailto:eschwitz@ucr.edu">eschwitz@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">SFCS students might be interested in Philosophy of Mind, PHIL 134, in Fall of 2023. Most of the course treats the "mind-body problem" -- how consciousness can arise from physical stuff or whether something non-physical is needed. Near the end of the course, SF themes come in, including robot consciousness, alien life, and teleportation.<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br>Eric</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:34 AM Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu" target="_blank">sherrylv@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Dear faculty,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I'm going to update the SFCS website with the courses that will be offered next year that are eligible for the DE. Could you let me know if you are teaching anything in scope next year and, if so, provide the Course Name, Number, and Title.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Sherryl</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint (she/her)</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Professor and Chair, Department of English</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="1" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><i>"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our </i><i>responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, </i><i>and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of </i><i>their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this </i><i>meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, </i><i>including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the </i><i>opportunity to live and work on these homelands."</i></font></div></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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