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Course description

The scale and scope of automation is an increasingly persistent feature of our everyday lives. In this course, students will engage with the deeper context of our faith in algorithms, and the aspirations, anxieties, ambitions and fantasies that have brought them to life. Course content will explore the science, ethics, politics and sensory experience of automation, from its historical inception to its technocratic and popular applications in contemporary life and the spaces we inhabit. Students will develop a grounded knowledge of the value systems shaping automated systems in the modern world, before progressing to a critical evaluation of the automated future that is central to the ambitions of contemporary digital cultures.

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