Reading
List, Part A: Literature & Theory of Technology
Print
Fiction/Poetry of Technology
Anonymous. "Book Worm Riddle". Kalamazoo
Riddle Group. 3 Aug. 2003 <http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/Riddles/Riddle45.htm>.
["Book Worm Riddle" in Old English with facing translation.]
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying
of Lot 49. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999.
Oulipo
Movement (and related works)
Montfort, Nick and Noah Wardrip-Fruin,
eds. The New Media Reader. Cambridge,
Mass: MIT Press, 2003.
Excepts Listed Below:
Berge, Claude. "For a Potential
Analysis of Combinatory Literature."
Calvino, Italo. "Prose and Anticombinatorics"Forunel, Paul. "
Computer and
Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment."Lescure, Jean. "
Brief History
of the Oulipo."
Queneau, Raymond. One Hundred
Thousand Billion Poems.
Queneau, Raymond. "Yours for the
Telling."
Williams, Emmett. "Like Attracts
Like." New Media Poetry. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/newmediapo/images/williams.jpg>.
- - -. "meditation no. 1." Transcriptions-
MA Materials. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/MA/Williams-meditation1.gif>.
- - -. "Typewriter." Transcriptions-
MA Materials. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/MA/Williams-typewriter.gif>.
cummings, e.e.. "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r." Poets.org
- The Academy of American Poets. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1184>.
Science
Fiction Related to Contemporary Technoculture
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New
York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Asimov, Isaac. "Liar!," "Evidence" and "The
Evitable Conflict." I, Robot. New York:
Bantam, 1994.
2001: A Space Odyssey. Dir.
Stanley Kubrick. MGM, 1968.
Blade Runner [Director’s Cut].
Dir. by Ridley Scott. Novel by Philip K. Dick. Adapt.
Hampton Fancher. Perf. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer,
Sean Young. Warner Brothers, 1982.
Tiptree, Jr., James. "The Girl Who
Was Plugged In." The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed.
Pat Cadigan. ibooks, inc., 2002.
Gibson, William. Agrippa (A Book
of the Dead). New York: Kevin Begos Publishing,
1992. Course Materials - Alan Liu. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/gibson/agrippa.html>.
[only available on-line.]
---. Neuromancer. New York:
Ace Books, 1984.
Electronic
Literature
Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl
by Mary/Shelley and herself. Hypertext fiction
on CD-ROM. Watertown, MA: Eastgate Systems, 1995.
[available in Transcriptions Studio].
Memmot, Talan. Lexia to Perplexia. Iowa
Review Web 7 Feb. 2002. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/talan_memmott/>.
Waber, Dan. Strings. Vispo
- Langu(im)age: Experimental Visual Poetry.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.vispo.com/guests/DanWaber/>.
Theory
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art
in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. Trans.
Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books: 1968. 217-252. <http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html>
Heidegger, Martin. "The Age of
the World Picture" The Question Concerning
Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger. Trans.
William Lovitt. New York: Harper Collins, 1982.
---. "The Question Concerning
Technology." The Question Concerning Technology,
and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger. Trans.
William Lovitt. New York: Harper Collins, 1982.
Marcuse, Herbert. "Some Social
Implications of Modern Technology." Eds. Andrew
Arato and Eike Gebhardt. The Essential Frankfurt
School Reader. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Haraway, Donna. "Cyborg Manifesto." Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New
York: Routledge, 1991.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been
Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993. (Chaps. 1-2,
pg. 1-48)
Turing, Alan. "Computing Machines and
Intelligence." The New Media Reader. Eds.
Nick Monfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, Mass:
MIT Press, 2003.
Laurel, Brenda. "Computers as
Theatre." The New Media Reader. Eds.
Nick Monfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, Mass:
MIT Press, 2003.
Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End
of Books - Or Books Without End? Ann Arbor,
MI: U. Michigan Press, 2000. (Introduction plus
pg. 89-106).
Aarseth, Espen J.. Cybertext: Perspectives
on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Paulson, William R. The Noise of
Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1988. ("Preface," "Chap.
3: Self-Organizing Systems: Information and Noise.")
Kittler, Friedrich A. Literature,
Media, Information Systems: Essays by Friedrich
A. Kittler. Ed. John Hohnston. Amsterdam: G&B
Arts International, 1997. ("Gramophone, Film,
Typewriter"; "There Is No Software"; "Protected
Mode")
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became
Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature,
and Informatics. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1999. ("Prologue," "Toward
Embodied Virtuality," "Virtual Bodies
and Flickering Signifiers" pg 1-49).
---. Writing Machines. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
Cayley, John. "The Code is Not
the Text." electronic book review 26
May 2002. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=cayleyele>.
Reading
List, Part B: Media History & Theory
Works
on Orality and the Transition to Writing
Williamson, Craig. "Comparative
Translations of the Book Worm Riddle." A
Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
51-52. Kalamazoo Riddle Group. Kenyon College.
3 Aug. 2003 <http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/amatterpg6.htm>.
Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard UP, 1960. ("Introduction," pg.
3-12; "Singers: Performance and Training," 13-29;
selections from "The Formula," 30-38, 65-67;
selections from "The Theme," 68-69, 78-79,
92-98; selections from "Songs and the Song," 99-102,
119-23.)
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963. ("The Homeric Encyclopedia," pg.
61-86; "The Homeric State of Mind," 134-44; "Psychology
of the Poetic Performance," pg. 145-64; "Content
and Quality of the Poeticised Statement," 165-93; "Psyche
or the Separation of Knower from Known," 197-214; "The
Recognition of the Known as Object," 215-33.)
Parkes, M. B. "The Influence of
the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on
the Development of the Book." Medieval Learning
and Literature: Essays Presented to R. W. Hunt. Ed.
J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson. Oxford: UPClarendon,
1976. 115-140.; (Rpt. in Scribes, Scripts, and
Readers. London: Hambledon, 1991. 35-70.)
Zumthor, Paul. "The
Text and the Voice." New Literary History 16.1
(Autumn 1984): 67-92.
Clanchy, M. T.. From Memory to Written
Record: England, 1066-1307. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1993. ("Introduction," pg.
1-21; "Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest," 25-43; "Types
of Record," 81-113; "Technology of Writing," 114-44; "The
Literate Mentality," 185-96; "Hearing
and Seeing," 253-93; "Practical Literacy," 328-34;
total of 164 pages.)
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller.
New York: Arcade, 1981. ("There is a tall Hopi
basket," p. 1; "I always called her Aunt
Susie," 3-7; "Storytelling," 94-9.)
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.. The Printing
Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.(pg 3 — 107) [abridged
edition of 2-vol. The Printing Press as an Agent
of Change, 1979.]
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. The
Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans John Cuming.
New York: Continuum: 1997.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Storyteller:
Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov" Illuminations. Trans.
Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books: 1968. 83-110.
Eisenstein, Sergei. "Through Theater
to Cinema," "The Cinematographic Principle and the
Ideogram," "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form." Film
Form New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949.
Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema Feminism and Film Theory.
Ed. Constance Penley. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Hall, Stuart. "Encoding, Decoding." Cultural
Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. 2nd ed. New
York: Routledge, 1993. 90-103.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Essential
McLuhan. New York: BasicBooks, 1995. (Chaps.
1-2, 9, 12, 14, plus Annotated Contents, Books
by Marshall McLuhan, Reading List; pg. 13-34, 149-79,
219-32, 270-97, 389-402).
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man London: Routledge,
1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. "Precession
of Simulacra." Simulacra and Simulation. Trans.
Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Univ. of Michigan
Press, 1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. "Requiem for
the Media." For a Critique of the Political
Economy of the Sign. Trans. Charles Levin. St.
Louis, MO.: Telos Press, 1981.
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Atlantic
Monthly July 1945: Vol. 176. No. 1, pg 101-108.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm>.
Shannon, Claude E. The Mathematical
Theory of Communication. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1969. 4 Aug. 2003. [Excerpt.] <http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/shannon/mathematical-theory.html>.
Weaver, Warren. "Recent Contributions
to the Mathematical Theory of Communication." Claude
E. Shannon and Warren Weaver, The Mathematical
Theory of Communication. Urbana: U. Illinois
Press, 1949. "(pg. 95-109, 114-17).
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics or
Control and Communication in the Animal. 2nd
edition. MIT Press, 1965. (Intro and Chaps. 1,
5, 8, 9; pg. 1-44, 116-32, 155-80).
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New
Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation:
Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1999. (pg. 3- 50)
Kittler, Friedrich A. Discourse
Networks, 1800/1900. Trans. Michael Metteer
with Chris Cullens. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press,
1990. (pg. xii-xviii from David Wellbury's "Foreword" and
pg. 206-229 from "The Great Lalula").
Steur, Jonathan. "Defining Virtual
Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence." Journal
of Communication 42(4) (1992): pg. 79-90.
Reading
List, Part C: Society, Culture, and Information
Primary
Works or Examples of Technological/Information
Culture
Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles
of Scientific Management. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1911. (Introduction, Chap. 1, and pg. 30-77 from
Chap. 2)
Davidow, William H. and Michael S.
Malone. The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and
Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. (pg. 1-19, 50-72,
184-205, 214-16.)
Barlow, John Perry. "A Declaration
of the Independence of Cyberspace." Electronic
Frontier Foundation. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html>.
---. "The Economy of Ideas." Wired Mar.
1994: Issue 2.03. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html>.
Association for Progressive Communications
(APC). 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.apc.org/english/index.htm>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Center for Democracy & Technology.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.cdt.org/>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Electronic Frontier Foundation. 4 Aug.
2003 <http://www.eff.org/>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Readings
in the Open Source Movement
The GNU Project and the Free Software
Foundation. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.gnu.org/home.html>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Open Source Initiativ. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.opensource.org/>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Open Sources: Voices from the Open
Source Revolution. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Slashdot. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://slashdot.org/>.
[browse to get a sense of the organization’s
mission, topics, causes]
Stephenson, Neal. In the Beginnng
Was the Command Line. New York: Avon Books,
1999. Cryptonomicon. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html>.
Raymond, Eric S. "The Cathedral
and the Bazaar." first monday 3.3 (1998).
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/>.
Theoretical, Critical Works
Schumpeter, Joseph A. "Creative
Destruction." Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
1942. New York: Harpert, 1975. 82-85. Course Materials
- Alan Liu. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/schumpeter/index.html>.
Ehrenreich, Barbara & John. "The
Professional-Managerial Class." Between Labor
and Capital: The Professional Managerial Class. Ed.
Pat Walker. Boston: South End, 1979.
Lyotard, Jean-François. The
Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis:
Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Castells, Manuel. The Information
Age: Economy, Society and Culture. 3 vols.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996-97. (Vol. 1: The
Rise of the Network Society, pg. 1-25, 195-200;
Vol. II: The Power of Identity, pg. 1-67)
Mattelart, Armand. Networking the
World, 1794-2000. Trans. Liz Carey-Libbrecht
and James A. Cohen. Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota
Press, 2000. (Chapters 1, 4, 7).
Dirlik, Arif. "The Postmodernization
of Production and Its Organization: Flexible Production,
Work and Culture." The Postcolonial Aura:
Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism. Boulder,
CO: Westview, 1997.
Barbrook, Richard, and Andy Cameron. "The
Californian Ideology." La Societa’ dell’Information.
Aug. 1995. 3 Aug. 2003 <http://www.dinicola.it/socinfo/california.htm>.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other
Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books,
2000.(Preface and Parts I & III; pg. ix-xii,
3-62, 111-212.)
Critical Art Ensemble. Electronic
Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas. Autonomedia,
1996.
Also available online as .pdf files <http://www.critical-art.net/books/index.html>
Critical Art Ensemble. The Electronic
Disturbance. Autonomedia, 1994.
Also available online as .pdf files <http://www.critical-art.net/books/index.html>
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1995. (pg. 9-49, 177-209).
Dibbell, Julian."A Rape in Cyberspace;
or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit,
Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database
into a Society." Reading Digital Culture.
Ed. David Trend. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
Nakamura, Lisa. "Race In/For Cyberspace:
Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet." Reading
Digital Culture. Ed. David Trend. Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2001.
|
Reading List 10
