Technology, Power and the Future of Humanity
7.5 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 1MV063
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main course materials
- Sætra, Henrik Skaug, Technology and sustainable development: the promise and pitfalls of techno-solutionism, 2023Compulsory
- Hornborg, Alf, The magic of technology: the machine as a transformation of slavery, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2023Compulsory
- Hayles, N. Katherine., Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 1: "An Integrated Cognitive Framework". Available online through the library)
- Digitalt kompendium online TMMF, CEMUS, 2020, www.cemus.uu.se/tmmfCompulsory
Recommended readings
- Fraser, Nancy; William, Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet - and what we can do about it, [Malmö], Produced by Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, 2023 (Chapter 4: “Nature in the Maw: Why Ecopolitics Must Be Transenvironmental and Anti-capitalist”)
- McNeill, John Robert; Engelke, Peter O.; William, The great acceleration: an environmental history of the Anthropocene since 1945, [Malmö], Produced by Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, 2023 (“Introduction” pp.1–7 and the subsection “Technology, Economy, and Nature” pp. 135–141])
The main group has no information.
* Compulsory