This course examines the structural changes in new stage of capitalism, which has been driven anew by the big technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, i.e., big data, algorithms and platforms as well as artificial intelligence technology. This course subject aims to expand the critical view of technology that simultaneously examines the double-edged aspects of opportunities and dangers that artificial intelligence might arise. Specifically, it deals in depth with the contemporary issues such as artificial intelligence and automatic society, automation and the end of work, AI and algorithmic culture, automated exclusion and discrimination, artificial intelligence and social inequality, and the A.I. ethics and social principles.

‘Anthropocene’ is a new concept describing the excess of human dominance on nature. By way of the concept of 'Anthropocene,' this graduate course deals with the recent academic debates on the human-driven ecological crises and the practical agendas for the transition of global ecologies beyond them. This course seeks to promote a broad understanding of philosophy, theory, methods and practice to diagnose and overcome the phase of the contemporary global crisis, such as Science and Technology Studies (STS), de-anthropocentricism, Capitalocene, new materialism, Anthropocene feminism, ecological art, infectious sociology, climate activism, Green New Deal, and so on.

This graduate course intends to discuss the theoretical and practical implications on how to re-establish the relationship between femininity and science and technology. In women’s history, science and technology generally have been regarded as like a symbol of patriarchal masculinity and also a battlefield of exploitation of women's bodies. This course rather notes the emotional bond of women with technology, by navigating a series of theoretical observations such as cyberfeminism, techno feminism, digital feminism, Anthropocene, feminism, and xenofeminism. By doing so, this course will explore how to redesign today’s science and technology system leaning on growth-fetishism, by techno femininity, which allows the (non-)humans a kind of conviviality in differences.

It has been a long time since the gender-mainstreaming principle was adopted at the national policy level. In addition, policy agendas such as gender mainstreaming policies, women and democracy, equality and inclusion of women and gender minorities are increasingly important in cultural policies. In this situation, this course discusses how existing cultural policies should be reconstructed through these agendas and how existing gender mainstreaming policies should be reorganized from the perspective of cultural policies through various studies, cases, issues and movements.

Museums and art galleries are the oldest forms and methods of cultural policy, and the result of national policy. It is museums and art galleries that try to lead the change of society by reestablishing their social roles and status in the rapidly changing society and environment. They are also one of the most sensitive public areas amid the rapid transition to a digital society. From this perspective, this course will learn and discuss the history of museum policies and their present, various policies and legislations, current tasks and future images according to changes in the policy environment.

In this course, archive is dealt with in practice and theoretical discussions of contemporary art beyond the concept or form of traditional document storage, and further approach as the dominant phenomenon of popular culture. It examines archives as critical practices against cultural institutions such as art museums, and as a place to create new social relationships with Utopian aspirations, and so on. Through this, we understand the important practical trends and characteristics of contemporary art, and discuss the dimensions of artistic intervention and reorganization of policies or institutions.

Anthropocentric prospects for development, growth, and technology have been further accelerating the global ecological crisis. Humans have caused the "Anthropocene" crisis, and have created a situation in which they have to practice alternatives at an urgent level to escape from this "burning earth." This course deals with the ecopolitical discourses that include discussions on a techno-ecological paradigm, new materialism, post-anthropocentrism, and new climate justice and climate activism in the real world. Graduate students have the chance to think about the nature and solution of the ecological crises and learn a reflective approach to pursue an ensemble of techno-natural ecologies under today's "disaster capitalism."