Syllabus
introduction
- post response using blogger.com + visit http://www.theweblogreview.com
- Imanuel Kant. "What is Enlightenment?" (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html)
- selections from Jurgen Habermas. Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. 1-56, 89-180.
- selections from Max Horkheimer + Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. London + NY: Verso, 1999. 3-42, 120-167, 209-211)
- Thomas Keenan. "Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, 'Humanitarian Intervention." (http://www.bard.edu/hrp/keenan/publicity&indifference.htm)
<recommended>
- Theodor W. Adorno, "Culture Industry Reconsidered" (http://www.textz.com)
- The Giant (Michael Klier 1984, 81 mins)
- Michel Foucault. "Panopticism." Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. NY: Vintage, 1979. 195-228.
- ---. "The Eye of Power." Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972-1977. NY: Pantheon Books. 1977. 146-165.
- Paul Virilio. "Public Image." + "Candid Camera." The Vision Machine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. 33-57.
- The Surveillance Camera Players (http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html)
<recommended>
- Michel Foucault. History of Sexuality: An Introduction. vol. 1. NY: Vintage Books, 1990. 1-131.
- Linda Williams, "Speaking Sex: 'The Indiscrete Jewels'" + "Prehistory: The 'Frenzy of the Visible.'" Hardcore: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible. Berkeley: U of California, 1999. 1-57.
- Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU: CYBERPORN," Time 146:1 (3 July 1995). (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950703/950703.cover.html)
- US District Court for the Eastern District OF Pennsylvania, ACLU v. Reno, CIVIL ACTION NO. 96-963 (http://www2.epic.org/cda/cda_dc_opinion.html)
- Victor Burgin. "Jenni's Room." Critical Inquiry 27 (Autumn 2000)
- Exoticise this (http://members.aol.com/critchicks/index.html)
<recommended>
- Jennicam (http://www.jennicam.com/) + other cam sites
- Thomas Keenan. "Windows: of Vulnerability." The Phantom Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993. 121-141.
- 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.
- Martin Heidegger. "The Age of the World Picture." The Question Concering Technology and Other Essays. trans. William Lovitt. NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1977. 115-154.
- U.S. Constitution -- Amendments I, III, IV, and V http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
- Kyllo v. US (US 2001) http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/11june20011200/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/99-8508.pdf
- Cohen v. California (US 1971) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=403&invol=15
- White v. Samsung Electronics (9th Cir. 1992)
- On the "USA PATRIOT
Act": http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp
For those of you that are particularly interested in the implications of the Patriot Act, there are a number of other resources out there about its provisions -- not required reading:
- http://www.cdt.org/security/010911response.shtml
- http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/
- http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/20010926_eff_wiretap_pr.html
<lecture>
- Situationist International: Theory of the Derive (http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/2.derive.htm), Detournement as Negation and Prelude (http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/3.detourn.htm), The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art (http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/11.newforms.htm).
- Guy Debord. Society of the Spectacle: I. Separation Perfected (http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sots1.html)
- Geert Lovink. "The Data Dandy and Sovereign Media" + "ABC" + "DEF" (http://www.textz.com)
- rtmark (http://www.rtmark.com)
- screening:Can Dialectics Break Bricks. (Rene Vienet, 1973, 90 mins)
- <paper #1 due>
- The Conversation (Coppola, 1974, 113 mins)
- Enemy of the State (Scott, 1998, 131 mins)
- Sigmund Freud. "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)." The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. trans. and ed. James Strachey. Volume XII, 3-82.
- Eric Santner. "The Father Who Knew Too Much." My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity. Princeton: Princeton, University Press, 1996. 63-102. (images)
- Sigmund Freud. "A Case of Paranoia Running Counter to the Psycho-Analytic Theory of the Disease." SE XIV. London: Hogarth, 1957. 261-72.
- Bit Plane (BIT, 1999, 13 mins)
- Suicide Box (BIT, 1997, 13 mins)
- Ocularis: Eye Surrogates (Kim Trang T. Tran, 1997, 20 mins)
- Thomas Levin + Ursula Frohne (eds), CTRL [space]. Cambridge MA: MIT, 2002.
- Timothy C. May. "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" + "Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities." Cryto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias. ed. Peter Ludlow. Cambridge MA: MIT, 2001. 61-79.
- Hakim Bey. "The Temporary Autonomous Zone." CA. 401-434.
- Lawrence Lessig. "The Internet Under Siege." (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2001/lessig.html)
- Julian Dibbell. "Pirate Utopia" (http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200109/msg00268.html)
- Steven Levy. "Tech's Double-Edged Sword." (http://www.msnbc.com/news/629630.asp)
- Lisa Beyer. "Osama's Endgame." (http://nuclearno.com/text.asp?719)
- "Virtual Sit Ins and Electronic Disturbances." (http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2001-May/000088.html)