Schedule
January 5: Questioning Digitality and Digital Futures
Introduction
Casaleggio Associati, "Prometeus, the New Media Revolution," 2007
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," 1945
Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript to the Societies of Control," 1990
Nicholas Negroponte, "On Digital Growth and Form," 1997
January 12: Ontology, Emergence, Matter, and Images
Henri Bergson, from Matter and Memory, ch. Intro., I, III, IV
Gilles Deleuze, from Bergsonism, "Memory as Virtual Coexistence," 1966
Keith Ansell-Pearson, from Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life, 2002, "Virtual Image: Bergson on Matter and Perception"
January 19: Holiday
January 26: Cybernetics, 'Man' & Machine, Humans & Animals,Techne & Nature
Norbert Weiner,Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 1948
Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, eponymous essay, 1955 [Available in bookstore and in Basic Writings, ed. Krell]
Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1949
February 2: Mechanics, Technics, Extensions, Borgism
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man, 1964, Part I--ch. Intro, 1-7 (read the whole if you have time)
Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 1988
Tim Berners-Lee, from Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, 1999, "Machines and the Web"
February 9: Borgism and Networks: Discursive Virtualism
Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Netorks 1800/1900, 1985.
Tim Berners-Lee, fromWeaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, 1999, "Weaving the Web"
Manuel Castells, from The Rise of the Network Society, 1996, ch. "Prologue: the Net and the Self," "The Culture of Virtual Reality[...]," and "Conclusion: The Network Society"
February 16: Vitalism, Emergence, Ecology, Assemblage
Gregory Bateson, from Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1967, from Part V: Epistemology and Ecology, pp 405-473
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1987, ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15 {I urge you to read all if you have time:-)}
Manuel DeLanda, from Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, 2002, ch. "Introduction: Deleuze's World" and "The Mathematics of the Virtual: Manifolds, Vector Fields, and Transformation Groups"
February 23: Virtuality, Sensation, Affect [Wysocki]
Gilles Deleuze, from Essays: Critical and Clinical, 1993, "Spinoza and the Three 'Ethics'"
Brian Massumi, Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, 2002
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. ‘On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge.’ Grey Room 18, Winter 2004, pp. 28-51.
On, Josh. Theyrule.
"Dead Reckoning: Aerial Perception and the Social Construction of Targets," Caren Kaplan; Design by Raegan Kelly
Last Dream, Andy Campbell
March 2: Radical Materialism and Embodiment: the Political Fold
Anna Munster, Materializing New Media: Embodiment in New Media Aesthetics, 2006
Jacques Ranciere, from The Future of the Image, 2003, eponymous ch., [pdf]
March 9: Holiday-Spring Break
March 16: Electronic "Literature" and Literal Art [Strickland]
Stephanie Strickland, Zone: Zero, 2008
Scott Rettberg, William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton, The Unknown. 1998-2002
Talan Memmott, "Lexia to Pexplexia, " 2000 --do not use Safari
John Cayley, "Windsound," 1999/2006
Judd Morrissey, with contributions from Lori Talley, "The Jew's Daughter," 2000
from N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary [pdf2]
March 23: Design, Shapes and Vocabularies: New Media
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, 2001
Vilem Flusser, fromThe Shape of Things, a Philosophy of Design, 1993 [pdf1] [pdf2]
Jacques Ranciere, from The Future of the Image, 2003, "Painting in the Text" [pdf]
Jacques Ranciere, from The Politics of Aesthetics, 2004, from "The Distribution of the Sensible" [pdf]
March 30: Neo-Phenomenology and New Mediation [Hansen]
Mark B. N. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media, 2004 [Read all EXCEPT ch. 2 & 5]
Mark B. N. Hansen, TBD additional material
April 6: Network and Protocol
Alexander Galloway, from Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, 2004, [pdf]
Alexander Galloway & Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks, 2007
Manuel DeLanda, from A New Philosophy of Society, 2006, "Persons and Networks," [pdf]
April 13: The Rhetoric of Gaming
Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, 2007
Alexander Galloway, from Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture, 2006, "Allegories of Control" [pdf]
James Paul Gee, from What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, revised, 2007, "36 Ways to Learn a Video Game" [pdf]].
April 20: Presentations