Section outline

  • Harris bees 1766

    NB: no class on November 30

    Text 11: Alfred H. Sinks, “How Science Made a Better Bee,” Popular Science (September 1944): 98–101.

    Context 11: Nature’s warriors; cyberbees and biomimetic evolutionary designs for human tools; stealth nature; refiguring the relation between human and non-human

    Assigned reading: Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto(2016 [1985]). [Hint: Budget 90 minutes and see how far you get.]

    Further reading: Jake Kosek, “Ecologies of empire: On the uses of the honeybee” Cultural Anthropology 25, no. 4 (2010): 650–78.

    Presentation: Eka (Tuesday)
    Presentation: Tuva (Thursday)