402.06.01:

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

 

402.13.01: 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

 

402.20.01: 2001 and Foucault

•Films Discussion: 2001: A Space Odyssey
•Readings

-Michel Foucault: Panopticism (PDF file)
-Tragedy over the Persian Gulf (Reader)

402.27.01: 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)

403.06.01: Cyber-Theory

•Readings

-Donna Haraway: The Cyborg Manifesto (Net)
-Donna Haraway: Persistance of Vision (PDF file)

 

403.13.01: Matrix and more

•Films Discussion: The Matrix
•Readings

-Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (PDF file)
-Samurai From Outer Space (PDF file)
-Avatars of Virtual Worlds (Reader II ???)