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Required Texts


Amazon logo Mitchell, William. The Reconfigured Eye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780262631600.

Amazon logo Manovich, Lev. The Paradoxes of Digital Photography. Edited by Hulbertus v. Amelunxen, Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rotzer, Alexis Cassel, and Nikolaus G. Schneider. Basel, Art Stock, 1997. ISBN: 9789057011016.

Spinello, Richard. "Code and Moral Values in Cyberspace." Ethics and Information Technology 3 (2001): 137-150.

Amazon logo Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780472095216. (Excerpt)

Amazon logo Hansen, Mark. New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262083218. (Excerpt)

Kittler, Friedrich. "There Is No Software." Ctheory.net (October 18, 1995).

Amazon logo Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997. ISBN: 9780684833484. (Excerpt)

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1969, pp. 217-252. ISBN: 9780805202410.

Cascone, Kim. "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music." Computer Music Journal 24, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 12-18.

Amazon logo Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780822316985.

Douglas, Christopher. "You Have Unleashed A Horde of Barbarians." Postmodern Culture 13, no. 1 (September 2002).

Amazon logo Friedman, Ted. "Civilization and Its Discontents: Simulation, Subjectivity, and Space." In On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology. Edited by Greg Smith. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998, pp. 132-150. ISBN: 9780814780817.

Amazon logo Dick, Philip K. Minority Report. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780375421877.

Spielberg, Steven. Minority Report. 2002. (Film showing)



Readings by Session



WEEK #TOPICSREADINGS
Unit One: Comparing Two Images
1How to Read an Image
2Discussion of Essay One Assignment

In-class: Critique of 5-para Essay (PDF)

Workshop P1.1
Amazon logo Mitchell, William. The Reconfigured Eye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780262631600.
3Group Debate About M vs. M

Conference One Signup
Amazon logo Manovich, Lev. The Paradoxes of Digital Photography. Edited by Hulbertus V. Amelunxen, Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rotzer, Alexis Cassel, and Nikolaus G. Schneider. Basel, Art Stock, 1997. ISBN: 9789057011016.
4Conferences
5Workshop Full Draft of D.E1

Conferences
Unit Two: The Ethics of New Media
6Internet EthicsSelected Essay on Internet Ethics.
7Group Speed Essay WritingNewspaper Articles on Ethics.
8Exercise Spot the Plagiarism
9Workshop P2.2
10Peer Editing of D.E2
Unit Three: The Culture of the Computer
11Workshop D.E2

Workshop Paragraphs of D.E2
Exposé Article (Lévinas).
12Present S1

Speech on E2
13Present S1

Speech on E2 (cont.)
14Kim CasconeCascone, Kim. "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music." Computer Music Journal 24, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 12-18.
15In-Class: Read Asimov

Read Benjamin
Asimov.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1969, pp. 217-252. ISBN: 9780805202410.
16Workshop P3.2
Unit Four: Films and Games
17Read Hansen

Workshop P3.3
Amazon logo Hansen, Mark. New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262083218. (Excerpt)
18Conferences

Exercise Peer Critique of Drafts

Workshop D.E3
19Conferences
20Read Computer Game Articles

Film Minority Report will be shown one day after this session
Computer Game Articles.
21Discuss How to Read a Film

22Workshop P4.1
23Course Evaluations
24Concluding Activities

 








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