Schedule
*ALL assignments, due dates & schedule subject to change at Prof. Bianco's discretion **Linked readings (pdfs) will remain available for 2 weeks prior to and one week after assigned date
AUGUST 30: Digital Media Studies, the Digital Humanities, and Digital Media Theory
Introduction
Set up study groups
Presentations for next class
HTML/CSS 101: Domain, FTP, Pitt Unix Server (W3 Schools/htmldog)
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," 1945
Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript to the Societies of Control," 1990
Patricia Cohen, "For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review," 2010
September 6: Holiday
September 13: MEDIUM: Ontology, Materiality, & Affectivity
Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics
Henri Bergson, from Matter and Memory, Introduction, Ch. 1, 2
Gilles Deleuze, "Lecture Transcripts on Spinoza's Concept of Affect"
---, from The Fold, "The Pleats of Matter" 1993
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***September 16: DM@P (digital media at Pitt) & CMU host :
ALAN LIU!
"remembering networks: agrippa, rose & network archaeology"
4:30pm, gregg hall (porter hall 100), cmu campus
September 20: MEDIUM: Perception, Memory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, & Speculative Realism
Henri Bergson, from Matter and Memory, Ch. 3-4, Conclusion
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from The Primacy of Perception, "The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences"
Graham Harman, from Guerrila Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things, Introduction & "Part 1: The Carnal Phenomenologists" (also available in the bookstore)
Ian Bogost, from Unit Operations, Introduction & "From Systems to Units" (also available online through the library and in the bookstore)
September 27: MEDIUM: Materiality: Embodiment, Assemblage, & Affect
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, from A Thousand Plateaux, "Rhizome"
Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity: How Matter Comes to Matter"
Jane Bennett, from Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things, Preface, "The Force of Things" & "The Agency of Assemblages" (also available in the bookstore)
Brian Massumi, from Parables of the Virtual, "Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn't" & "The Autonomy of Affect"
Teresa Brennan, from The Transmission of Affect, Introduction & "The Education of the Senses"
October 4: MEDIUM: Embodiment, Affect, & Aesthetics
Barbara Kennedy, from Deleuze and Cinema: the Aesthetics of Sensation, "Discovering the Beautiful Stranger..." & "From Micro-Politics to Aesthetics"
Lev Manovich, from The Language of New Media, Introduction & "What Is New Media"
Anna Munster, from Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics, "Introduction: the Body in the Machine" & "Sampling and Folding: The Digital and the Baroque"
Mark Hansen, from New Philosophy for New Media, Introduction
--. "The Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life" (Critical Inquiry)
---, from Bodies-in-Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, Introduction & "Bodies in Code, or How Primordial Tactility Introjects Technics into Human Life"
--. from unpublished MS, "Beyond the Temporal Object"
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optional: second part of Hansen MS
October 11: FALL BREAK/NO CLASSES (MONDAY CLASSES MEET ON TUESDAY, OCT 12)
October 12: MEDIATION: Machines, Technology, Media, & History (MONDAY CLASSES MEET ON TUESDAY)
Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media, 5 & "Theory" pdf1 | pdf2
Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture
Friedrich Kittler, from Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays, "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter"
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, Preface, Introduciton, Ch. 1-2, Coda
October 18: INFORMATION: Cybernetics, Informatics, Knowledge Work & Labor
Tiziana Terranova, Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age, Introduction,"Three Propositions on Informational Cultures" & "Free Labour"
Alan Liu, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, Introduction, Part III: "The Laws of Cool" & Part IV: Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge Work"
October 25: NETWORKS: Tactics & Multitudes
Paolo Virno, from A Grammar of the Multitude, Introduction & "Labor, Action, Intellect"
(also optional "Forward" for an understanding of the Italian Autonomia movement)Rita Raley, Tactical Media
November 1: CLASS CANCELED
No class
Work on developing your final project proposals
November 8: NETWORKS: Protocols & Control
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization
November 15: NETWORKS: Protocols & Exploits
Tiziana Terranova, Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age, "Network Dynamics"
Alexander Galloway & Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
November 22: MULTIMODALITY
Jeff Rice, The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media
November 29: MULTIMODALITY
Joddy Murray, Non-Discursive Rhetoric: Image and Affect in Multimodal Composition
December 6: Synthesis
December 8-9 Matthew Kirschenbaum Event!
Lecture: wednesday, December 8, 5pm: "The .txtual Condition" (324 CL)
Seminar: thursday, December 9, 9:30-11 (362 CL)
Seminar Readings: Framing Digital Humanities
please attend at least one of these events as class for the week
December 13: PRESENTATIONS: present your final project!