Saturday, May 31, 2008

reading schedule, part 3

Week 9 (7/21 – 7/27)

The Cybercultures Reader, David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., pp. 159-320

Includes:
  • Mapping the Big Girl: Lara Croft and New Media Fandom (Bob Rehak) [Popular Cybercultures]
  • From DV Realism to a Universal Recording Machine (Lev Manovich) [Popular Cybercultures]
  • Electronic Homesteading on the Rural Frontier: Big Sky Telegraph and its Community (Willard Uncapher) [Cybercommunities]
  • Community in the Abstract: A Political and Ethical Dilemma? (Michele Willson) [Cybercommunities]
  • Against Virtual Community: For a Politics of Distance (Kevin Robins) [Cybercommunities]
  • Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday-Life Perspective (Maria Bakardjieva) [Cybercommunities]
  • Webs as Pegs (David Bell) [Cybercommunities]
  • Identity Construction and Self-presentation on Personal Homepages: Emancipatory Potentials and Reality Constraints (Charles Cheung) [Cyberidentities]
  • Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner (Alison Landsberg) [Cyberidentities]
  • Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet (Lisa Nakamura) [Cyberidentities]
  • Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese (Aihwa Ong) [Cyberidentities]

Week 10 (7/28 – 8/3)

The Cybercultures Reader, David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., pp. 321-471

Includes:

  • Promiscuous Fictions (Tyler Curtain) [Cyberidentities]
  • On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations (Sadie Plant) [Cyberfeminisms]
  • New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed (Chela Sandoval) [Cyberfeminisms]
  • Cyberquake: Haraway’s Manifesto (Zoë Sofoulis) [Cyberfeminisms]
  • Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures (Alison Adam) [Cyberfeminisms]
  • The Embodied Computer/User (Deborah Lupton) [Cyberbodies]
  • Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures (Allucquere Rosanne Stone) [Cyberbodies]
  • From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human Entities (Stelarc) [Cyberbodies]

Week 11 (8/4 – 8/10)

The Cybercultures Reader, David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., pp. 472-637

Includes:

  • Serene and Happy and Distant: An Interview with Orlan (Robert Ayers) [Cyberbodies]
  • Revenants: Death and the Digital Uncanny (Catherine Waldby) [Cyberbodies]
  • The Universal Robot (Hans Moravec) [Cyberlife]
  • Cyberlife’s Creatures (Sarah Kember) [Cyberlife]
  • Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm: Ideas about Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation (Sherry Turkle) [Cyberlife]
  • Computing the Human (N. Katherine Hayles) [Cyberlife]
  • Digital Networks and the State: Some Governance Questions (Saskia Sassen) [Cyberpolitics]
  • Technopower and its Cyberfutures (Tim Jordan) [Cyberpolitics]
  • Hackers—Cyberpunks or Microserfs? (Paul A. Taylor) [Cyberpolitics]
  • Technopolitics and Oppositional Media (Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner) [Cyberpolitics]

Week 12 (8/11 – 8/16)

The Cybercultures Reader, David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., pp. 638-787

Includes:

  • The Internet in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attack (Briavel Holcomb, Philip B. Bakelaar, and Mark Zizzamia) [Cyberpolitics]
  • Flow, Process, Fold (Timothy Lenoir and Casey Alt) [Beyond Cybercultures]
  • Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science (Colin Milburn) [Beyond Cybercultures]
  • Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics (Robin Held) [Beyond Cybercultures]
  • Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City (Matthew Gandy) [Beyond Cybercultures]
  • From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces (Adriana de Souza e Silva) [Beyond Cybercultures]
  • Thinking Ontologies of the Mind/Body Relational: Fragile Faces and Fugitive Graces in the Processuality of Creativity and Performativity (Barbara M. Kennedy) [Beyond Cybercultures]

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