{"id":27425,"date":"2026-04-13T19:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/?page_id=27425"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:52:08","slug":"popular-culture-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-a-i-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\/autumn-dcx\/popular-culture-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-a-i-apocalypse","title":{"rendered":"Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of the A.I. Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/uwb-premajor-ai-apocalypse-dcx-course-banner.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/AH-with-purple.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25068\" style=\"width:100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-large\">A Discovery Core Experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May be taken as <strong>BCORE 104<\/strong> (Arts &amp; Humanities)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About This Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This course focuses on popular representations of the technological singularity, or what some have referred to as the AI apocalypse. We will study primary and secondary texts to gain a better understanding of the role that film, video games, and visual art plays in shaping the popular imagination about advancing technology. This is an interdisciplinary course, and we will examine the core topics of popular culture, aesthetics, apocalypse, and singularity through various theoretical groundings and methodological approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assignments include reading journal, group presentation, and a final analysis paper or creative project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Required texts\/films<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Course Packet<\/strong>: required (available to purchase at UW Bookstore)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Films<\/strong>: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Matrix, Artificial Intelligence, I, Robot, Ex Machina, and others (available to stream through UW Library).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learning Objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of this course, students will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demonstrate engagement with the topic and themes of the course in a variety of forms, including formal and informal writing assignments, class discussion, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop and apply a critical vocabulary of key terms and concepts relating to the study of cultural depictions of technology and the end of the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop a historical and contemporary analysis of how Western aesthetic theory has informed conceptions of the individual, subjects and objects, art and reality, beauty and terror, and the imagined future of humanoid embodiment and consciousness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Georgia Roberts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/IAS-Faculty-Georgia-Roberts-Square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27427 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/IAS-Faculty-Georgia-Roberts-Square.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/IAS-Faculty-Georgia-Roberts-Square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/04\/IAS-Faculty-Georgia-Roberts-Square-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Dr. Roberts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. English, University of Washington, Seattle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A. English, University of Washington, Seattle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A. English and Ethnic Studies (minor), University of California, Berkeley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:gmr2@uw.edu\">gmr2@uw.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Discovery Core Experience May be taken as BCORE 104 (Arts &amp; Humanities) About This Course This course focuses on popular representations of the technological singularity, or what some have referred to as the AI apocalypse. 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