Syllabus
introduction
<html lab>
- basic html + Webmonkey tutorial on tables and forms.
- Selections from Michel Foucault. The Archaeology of Knowledge. trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith NY: Pantheon, 1972. 3-17, 40-49, 126-131, 135-195.
- ---. "Two Lectures." Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972-1977. NY: Pantheon Books. 1977. 78-108.
- Friedrich A. Kittler. "Introduction." Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. Stanford CA: Stanford UP, 1986. 1-19. (images)
- ---. "The History of Communication Media." (http://www.textz.com)
- Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin, 1992, 48)
- Spectres of the Spectrum (Craig Baldwin, 1999, 94 minutes)
- Walter Benjamin. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. trans. Harry Zohn. NY: Schocken Books, 1968. 217-251.
- Selections from Marshal McLuhan. Understanding Media. Cambridge MA: MIT, 1995. 3-73
- Selections from Lev Manovich. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001. 1-61.(images)
- Selections from Deborah Esch. In the Event. Stanford CA: Stanford UP, 1999. 61-96. (images)
- readings by Geert Lovink.
- Natalie Jeremijenko. "Dialogue with a Monologue: Voice Chips and the Products of Abstract Speech." (http://www.cat.nyu.edu/natalie/VoiceChips.pdf)
- Kittler, "Gramophone." GFT. 21-114.
- Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard)
- l'Histoires du Cinema (Godard)
- readings by Geoffrey Batchen, Thomas Elsaesser, Richard Dienst
<l'histoires presentation: Melanie + Louis>
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- Jacques Derrida. "Plato's Pharmacy." Dissemination. trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago, 63-172.
- Hal Foster. "The Archive without Museums." October 77 (summer 1996): 97-119.
- readings by Wolfgang Ernst + Cornelia Vismann
<javascript presentation: Nicole + JB>
<lecture>
<peer-to-peer + networks lab>
- Sniffing FAQ (http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/sniffing-faq.html)
- Geert Lovink. "The Data Dandy and Sovereign Media" + "ABC" + "DEF" (http://www.textz.com)
- Lawrence Lessig. "The Internet Under Siege." (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2001/lessig.html)
- Claude Lefort. "The Question of Democracy." + "Human Rights and the Welfare State." Democracy and Political Theory. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. 1998. 9-44.
- Electronic Civil Disobedience (http://www.critical-art.net/ecd2.pdf)
<peer-to-peer + networks presentation: Michelle + David>
- Friedrich Kittler. "There Is No Software." (http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=74)
- Yochai Benkler, Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/Coase%27s_Penguin.pdf
- Eben Moglen, "Anarchism Triumphant" http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html#author
- Willam W. Fisher, III."The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States," in Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999), 265-91 http://www.law.harvard.edu/Academic_Affairs/coursepages/tfisher/iphistory.html
recommended:
- Yochai Benkler, Through the Looking Glass: Alice and the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/benkler.pdf
- Willam W. Fisher, III. ÒProperty and Contract on the Internet,Ó Chicago-Kent Law Review 73 (1998): 1203 http://www.law.harvard.edu/Academic_Affairs/coursepages/tfisher/compuls99.html
<llinux presentation: Jasper + Matt>
<proposal due>
- Selections from Lev Manovich, LNM. 177-243.
- readings by Lisa Nakamura
- readings by Tara McPherson + Renata Salecl
- Victor Burgin. "Jenni's Room." Critical Inquiry 27 (Autumn 2000)