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The Updated Syllabus |
•02.06.01:
History of hacking: 2600 // atstake
How to hack: how to hack // hack furby
Letter of the law: happyhacker
Hack(er) art: RtMark // jodi // chaos computer club
Critical Reading: Patrick Lichty, Grasping at Bits
File sharing networks: napster // hotline // carracho // freenet // gnutella
•02.13.01: Modernism vs. Post Modernism
•Films Discussion: Modern Times vs. Bladerunner
•Readings-Review Modernism (Net)
-Intro to Post Modernism (Net)
-Pomo outlined (Net)
-Techno Products and the Beauty of the Absurd (Reader)•Papers due
•02.20.01: 2001 and Foucault
•Films Discussion: 2001: A Space Odyssey
•Readings-Michel Foucault: Panopticism (PDF file) Click to Download
-Tragedy over the Persian Gulf (Reader)
•02.27.01: Bladerunner and Benjamin
•Films Discussion: Bladerunner
•Readings-Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Net)
-The Legacy of the Apollo Project (Reader)
•03.06.01: Cyber-Theory
•Readings
-Donna Haraway: The Cyborg Manifesto (Net)
-Donna Haraway: Persistence of Vision (PDF file) Click to Download
•03.13.01: Matrix and more
•Films Discussion: The Matrix
•Readings-Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (PDF file) Click to Download
-Antonia Levi: Samurai From Outer Space (PDF file) Click to Download
-Avatars of Virtual Worlds (Reader II ???)