Animal, Vegetable or Digital? PHF

Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only by
permission of instructor.
In this course we will read, analyze and write
about fiction that reaches beyond the human for
its narrators, characters, plots and
preoccupations. How do these stories, which center
on animal, insect, plant or artificial life,
de-center humans and the very concept of the
human? How do they de-naturalize Nature? What
alternative ways of being in the world do they
suggest to us? Some key concepts guiding our
discussion will be anthropomorphism, zoomorphism,
posthumanism and ecofiction.