Innovation Center Co-Lab F26: Politics and Aesthetics in the Age of AI

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Description The Dean of Faculty's office invites students to apply to this Fall ‘26 Innovation Co-Lab “Politics and Aesthetics in the Age of AI: Power, Ritual, and Resistance from Silicon Valley to your Smartphone". The Co-Lab is a semester-long opportunity where students take a set of three courses that combine mutually reinforcing academic and experiential learning experiences. All the instructors in the Co-Lab work together to coordinate syllabi and assignments and to provide students in the Lab with an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the topic. For this Co-Lab, Professors Ashley Gorham, Anna Huff and Phil Klinkner will teach three connected courses in which students will examine contributions to the constitution of the technological police order and the forms of politics that resist it. For more information, please see the course descriptions below. Experiential learning for this lab will include weekly or bi-weekly “rotations” with participation in lectures, workshops, and symposiums by leading experts or cultural “disruptors.” The cluster will also include site visits and field trips locally with a potential capstone field trip to Silicon Valley itself, to meet...