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11. LITERATURE & THEORY
OF TECHNOLOGY / MEDIA / INFORMATION
(Alphabetical
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Faculty
Committee: Yunte Huang, Alan Liu, Carol Pasternack, Rita
Raley, William Warner
2001: A Space Odyssey. Dir.
Stanley Kubrick. MGM, 1968.
Aarseth, Espen J.. Cybertext: Perspectives
on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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.]
Asimov, Isaac. "Liar!," "Evidence" and "The
Evitable Conflict." I, Robot. New York:
Bantam, 1994.
Barbrook, Richard, and Andy Cameron. "The
Californian Ideology." La Societa’ dell’Information.
Aug. 1995. 3 Aug. 2003 <http://www.dinicola.it/socinfo/california.htm>.
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>.
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.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Storyteller:
Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov" Illuminations. Trans.
Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books: 1968. 83-110.
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>.
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.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation:
Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1999. (pg. 3- 50)
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>.
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)
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>.
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.)
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>
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>.
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.)
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.
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.
Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End
of Books - Or Books Without End? Ann Arbor,
MI: U. Michigan Press, 2000. (Introduction plus
pg. 89-106).
Ehrenreich, Barbara & John. "The
Professional-Managerial Class." Between Labor
and Capital: The Professional Managerial Class. Ed.
Pat Walker. Boston: South End, 1979.
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]
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.
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.
Hall, Stuart. "Encoding, Decoding." Cultural
Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. 2nd ed. New
York: Routledge, 1993. 90-103.
Haraway, Donna. "Cyborg Manifesto." Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New
York: Routledge, 1991.
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.)
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.
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.
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. The
Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans John Cuming.
New York: Continuum: 1997.
Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl
by Mary/Shelley and herself. Hypertext fiction
on CD-ROM. Watertown, MA: Eastgate Systems, 1995.
[available in Transcriptions Studio]
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")
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").
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been
Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993. (Chaps. 1-2,
pg. 1-48)
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.)
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.)
Lyotard, Jean-François. The
Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis:
Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New
Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.
Marcuse, Herbert. "Some Social
Implications of Modern Technology." Eds. Andrew
Arato and Eike Gebhardt. The Essential Frankfurt
School Reader. New York: Continuum, 1988.
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).
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.
Memmot, Talan. Lexia to Perplexia. Iowa
Review Web 7 Feb. 2002. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/talan_memmott/>.
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."
Laurel, Brenda. "Computers
as Theatre."
Lescure, Jean. "Brief History of
the Oulipo."
Queneau, Raymond. One Hundred
Thousand Billion Poems.
Queneau, Raymond. "Yours for
the Telling."
Turing, Alan. "Computing Machines
and Intelligence."
Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema Feminism and Film Theory.
Ed. Constance Penley. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Nakamura, Lisa. "Race In/For Cyberspace:
Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet." Reading
Digital Culture. Ed. David Trend. Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2001.
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.)
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.")
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot
49. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999.
Raymond, Eric S. "The Cathedral
and the Bazaar." first monday 3.3 (1998).
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/>.
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>.
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>.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New
York: Penguin Books, 1992.
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.)
Stephenson, Neal. In the Beginnng
Was the Command Line. New York: Avon Books,
1999. Cryptonomicon. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html>.
Steur, Jonathan. "Defining Virtual
Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence." Journal
of Communication 42(4) (1992): pg. 79-90.
Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles
of Scientific Management. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1911. (Introduction, Chap. 1, and pg. 30-77 from
Chap. 2)
Tiptree, Jr., James. "The Girl Who
Was Plugged In." The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed.
Pat Cadigan. ibooks, inc., 2002.
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1995. (pg. 9-49, 177-209).
Waber, Dan. Strings. Vispo
- Langu(im)age: Experimental Visual Poetry.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.vispo.com/guests/DanWaber/>.
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).
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>.
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>.
Zumthor, Paul. "The Text and the
Voice." New Literary History 16.1 (Autumn
1984): 67-92.
Association for Progressive Communications
(APC). 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.apc.org/english/index.htm>.
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mission, topics, causes]
Center for Democracy & Technology.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.cdt.org/>.
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mission, topics, causes]
Electronic Frontier Foundation. 4 Aug.
2003 <http://www.eff.org/>.
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Readings in the Open Source Movement:
The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.gnu.org/home.html>.
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Open Source Initiative.
4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.opensource.org/>.
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mission, topics, causes]
Open Sources: Voices from
the Open Source Revolution. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html>.
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mission, topics, causes]
Slashdot. 4 Aug. 2003 <http://slashdot.org/>.
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