Syllabus

Intro

a. public sphere

• selections from Jurgen Habermas. Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. MIT Press 1994. 1-180.
• Imanuel Kant. "What is Enlightenment?" <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html>

b. panopticism

• I Thought I was Seeing Convicts (Harun Farocki, Germany, 25 mins)

• Michel Foucault. "Panopticism." Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. NY: Vintage, 1979. 195-228. (packet)
• ---. ¡§The Eye of Power.¡¨ CTRL SPACE. 94-101.
• Allan Sekula. ¡§The Body and the Archive.¡¨ October 39 (1986): 3-64. (e-reserves)
• Hille Koskela, ¡§¡¥Cam Era¡¦ ¡X the contemporary urban Panopticon.¡¨ Surveillance and Society 1:3 (Summer 2003), <http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/camera.pdf>
• Harun Farocki, ¡§Controlling Observation.¡¨ CTRL SPACE: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Eds. Thomas Y. Levin et al. MIT Press, 2002, 102-107

c. exposed

• Bunker Hill Monument Projection by KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO (Wodiczko, USA, 22 mins)

• Hortense Spillers. ¡§Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book.¡¨ Diacritics 17:2 (Summer 1987): 65-81 (e-reserves)
• Thomas Keenan. ¡§Windows: of Vulnerability.¡¨ The Phantom Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993. 121-141. (packet)
• Felix Stalder, ¡§Privacy is not the Antidote to Surveillance,¡¨ Surveillance and Society  1:1 (Autumn 2002) <http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1/opinion.pdf>
• CECUT Project <http://web.mit.edu/idg/cecut.html>
• PBS Documentation of Krzysztof Wodiczki <http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/>
• Perverted Justice: <http://www.pervertedjustice.com>

d. excess of secrets

• Jodi Dean Publicity¡¦s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy. Cornell UP, 2002, 1-114.

• Listen to NPR¡¦s piece on Mark Lombardi¡¦s ¡§Conspiracy Art¡¨ <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185>
• They rule <http://www.theyrule.net>
• blogs:
• abovetopsecret.com <http://www.abovetopsecret.com/>
• bestoftheblogs <http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/>
• conspiracy news <http://conspiracynews.org/>
• talking points memo <http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/>
• daily kos http://www.dailykos.com/
• eschaton <http://atrios.blogspot.com/>
• poor and stupid <http://www.poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp>
• dissecting leftism http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/
• feisty republican whore <http://feistywhore.blogspot.com/>

a. circulating gazes

• Networks Lab

• Richard Dienst, ¡§From Post Cards to Smart Bombs (and Back Again): Derrida and the Televisual System,¡¨ Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1994. 128-143. (packet)
• Martin Heidegger. ¡§The Age of the World Picture.¡¨ The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. trans. William Lovitt. NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1977. 115-154. (packet)

b. public spectacles

• Presentations

• Guest: Liz Canner (Public Projections)

• Midterm Papers due

• Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (Rene Vienet, France, 90 mins)

• Detournement as Negation and Prelude <http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/315>
• The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art <http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/11.newforms.htm>

• Guy Debord. Society of the Spectacle: I. Separation Perfected <http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/16>, II. Commodity as Spectacle <http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/17>
• Max Horkheimer + Theodor W. Adorno. ¡§The Culture Industry.¡¨ Dialectic of Enlightenment (London: Verso, 1997) (packet)
• Thomas Keenan. ¡§Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, 'Humanitarian Intervention.¡¨ <http://www.bard.edu/hrp/keenan/publicity&indifference.htm>

c. the limits of perception

• The Giant (Michael Klier, Germay, 81 mins)

• Selections from Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. 33-57.
• Christian Katti. "Systematically" Observing Surveillance: Paradoxes of Observation according to Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory." CTRL [SPACE]. 50-63.
• Wolfgang Ernst. "Beyond the Rhetoric of Perception: Surveillance as Cybernetics." CTRL [SPACE]. 460-463.
• Jonathan Crary, ¡§Modernity and the Problem of Attention,¡¨ Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001. 11-79. (e-reserves)

March Break

a. CM

• Screen Test (Andy Warhol, 1965)

• Peter Wiebel. ¡§Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle.¡¨ CTRL [SPACE]. 206-223.
• Slavoj  Zizek. "Big Brother, or, The Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye." CTRL [SPACE]. 224-227.
• Ursula Frohne. "'Screen Tests': Media Narcissism, Theactricality, and the Internalized Observer." CTRL [SPACE]. 252.
• Victor Burgin. "Jenni's Room." Critical Inquiry 27 (Autumn 2000) (e-reserves)
• selections from Jodi Dean. Publicity's Secret. 114-150.
• Selections from Theresa Senft, Camgirls: Webcams, Live-Journals and the Personal as Political in the Age of Global Brand, TBD.

• Camsites:
• Anacam  <www.anacam.com>
• Jennicam archive <http://web.archive.org/web/20030621053531/jennicam.org/>
• Camwhores <www.camwhores.com>
• MTAA, ¡§1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate) <http://turbulence.org/Works/1year>

• Guest: Tom Keenan (Home-made videos from Iraq)

b. Control and Capture

• Suicide Box (BIT, 1996, 13 minutes)
• BIT Plane (BIT, 1997-8, 14 minutes)

• Philip Agre, "Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy," The New Media Reader, 740-760. (e-reserves)
• selections from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000. 22-66. (packet)
• Gilles Deleuze. "Postscript on the Societies of Control." <http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/texts/deleuze.htm>
• Mitchell Gray, ¡§Urban Surveillance and Panopticism: will we recognize the facial recognition society?¡¨ Surveillance and Socity 1[3]:314-330. < http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/facial.pdf>
• Mark Poster, ¡§Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations." In David Lyon and Elia Zureik, eds., Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1996), 175-192. (packet)
• David Lyon, ¡§Against Dystopia, Distance, Division,¡¨ ¡§Beyond Postmodern Paranoia,¡¨ The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1994), 199-225. (packet)

c. Smart Mobs

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