Saturday, May 31, 2008

reading schedule, part 2

Week 5 (6/23 – 6/29)

Critical Cyberculture Studies, David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds., pp. 205-308

Includes:
  • An Action Research (AR) Manifesto for Cyberculture Power to “Marginalized” Cultures of Difference (Bharat Mehra) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]
  • Cyberstudies and the Politics of Visibility (David J. Phillips) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]
  • Disaggregation, Technology, and Masculinity: Elements of Internet Research (Frank Schaap) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]
  • Gender, Technology, and Visual Cyberculture: Virtually Women (Kate O’Riordan) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]
  • How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons from the First Hackers’ Conference (Fred Turner) [Critical Histories of the Recent Past]
  • Government.com: ICTs and Reforming Governance in Asia (Shanthi Kalathil) [Critical Histories of the Recent Past]
  • Dot-Coms and Cyberculture Studies: Amazon.com as a Case Study (Adrienne Massanari) [Critical Histories of the Recent Past]
  • Associating Independents: Business Relationships and the Culture of Independence in the Dot-Com Era (Gina Neff) [Critical Histories of the Recent Past]

Week 6 (6/30 – 7/6)

Cyber_Reader, Neil Spiller, ed., pp. 6-157

Includes:

  • Introduction (Neil Spiller)
  • Of the Analytical Engine (Charles Babbage)
  • The Machine Stops (EM Forster)
  • As We May Think (Vannevar Bush)
  • Essays of Operation (Jay David Bolter)
  • Organization of the Message (Norbert Wiener)
  • Man-Computer Symbiosis (JCR Licklider)
  • Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (Douglas Engelbart)
  • The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis (Marshall McLuhan)
  • The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics (Gordon Pask)
  • Generator Project (Cedric Price)
  • The Aesthetics of Disappearance (Paul Virilio)
  • A Thousand Plateaux: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari)
  • Neuromancer (William Gibson)
  • A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna Haraway)
  • Engines of Abundance (K. Eric Drexler)
  • Queen of Angels (Greg Bear)
  • The Difference Engine (William Gibson and Bruce Sterling)
  • The Origins of Drama and the Future of Fun (Howard Rheingold)
  • Policing the Spectrum (Manuel De Landa)
  • Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace (Marcos Novak)

Week 7 (7/7 – 7/13)

Cyber_Reader, Neil Spiller, ed., pp. 158-309

Includes:

  • An Empirical Theory of the Mind: The Evolution of Consciousness (Daniel C. Dennett)
  • Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
  • The Strong Claim (Steven Levy)
  • Life in a Computer (Roger Lewin)
  • Stash Riders (Jeff Noon)
  • Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information (Erik Davis)
  • Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance (Scott Bukatman)
  • Feminism for the Incurably Informed (Anne Balsamo)
  • Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality (Sherry Turkle)
  • An Open Universe (Kevin Kelly)
  • Permutation City (Greg Egan)
  • Soft Cities (William Mitchell)
  • When I Enter Virtual Reality, What Body Will I Leave Behind? (Karen A. Franck)
  • A Natural Model for Architecture/The Nature of the Evolutionary Body (John Frazer)
  • Iconographics (Nicholas Negroponte)
  • Towards the Post-Human (Stelarc)
  • A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (John Perry Barlow)
  • Robocopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the Future (Mark Dery)
  • The Senses Have No Future (Hans Moravec)
  • The Virtual Reality of the Tea Ceremony (Michael Heim)
  • Hertzian Space (Anthony Dunne)
  • The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace (Margaret Wertheim)
  • Vacillating Objects (Neil Spiller)

Week 8 (7/14 – 7/20)

The Cybercultures Reader, David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., pp. 1-158

Includes:

  • Cybercultures Rewriter (David Bell)
  • Cyberspace: First Steps (Michael Benedikt) [Approaching Cybercultures]
  • A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (Donna Haraway) [Approaching Cybercultures]
  • Space for Rent in the Last Suburb (Scott McQuire) [Approaching Cybercultures]
  • Cyberspace (Scott Bukatman) [Approaching Cybercultures]
  • Red Alert in Cyberspace! (Paul Virilio) [Approaching Cybercultures]
  • From Captain America to Wolverine. Cyborgs in Comic Books: Alternative Images of Cybernetic Heroes and Villains (Mark Oehlert) [Popular Cybercultures]
  • The Technophilic Body: On Technicity in William Gibson’s Cyborg Culture (David Tomas) [Popular Cybercultures]
  • Deai-Kei: Japan’s New Culture of Encounter (Todd Joseph, Miles Holden, and Takako Tsuruki) [Popular Cybercultures]

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