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Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Reader

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Contents

 

Introduction

 

PART I: THE BEING OF TECHNOLOGY: NETWORK, POWER, POLITICS

 

1 The Being of Technology: Tool or Environment?

1. Poster, M. (2001) ‘The Being of Technologies’ (pp. 21-28 only) in What’s the Matter with the Internet, University of Minnesota Press

2. Posterm M. (1995) 'Cyberdemocracy: Internet as a Public Sphere'. Also available in M. Poster (2001) What's the Matter with the Internet, University of Minnesota Press.

3. Stiegler, B. (1998) ‘Prometheus’s Liver’ in his Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus, Stanford University Press

4. Stiegler, B. (2003) 'Our Ailing Educational Institutions', Culture Machine vol. 5.

5. Kelly, K. (ongoing) The Technium

 

2 Surveillance and Control

1. Foucault, M. (1975) ‘The Body of the Condemned', ‘The Means of Correct Training’ and ‘Panopticism’ in Discipline and Punish, Allen Lane

2. The Surveillance Camera Players

 

3 Globalisation and Empire

Hardt, M. & Negri, A. (2000) Empire, Harvard University Press (excerpts)

 

4 Spaces of Flows in the Network Society

1. Castells, M. (2000) ‘The Space of Flows’, in The Rise of the Network Society, Blackwell

2. Castells, M. ‘Identity and Change in the Network Society: an Interview with Manuel Castells’

3. Castells, M., 'Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development'

 

 

PART II: BEING-WITH-TECHNOLOGY: HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE

 

5 The Cyborg and/as the Posthuman

1. Haraway, D. (1991) ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’, Simians, Cyborgs and Women, Free Association Books

2. Clip from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004): 'Haraway on anthropomorphisation'

 

6 Technologies of the Self

1. Foucault, M. (1990) ‘Technologies of the Self’ (excerpt), in L. Martin et al. (eds) Technologies of the Self, Tavistock Books, pp. 16-31

2. Clark, J. ‘Deconstructing "You've Got Blog"’

 

7 Nature/Culture and the Question of Bioethics

1. Franklin, S. (2000) ‘Life Itself. Global Nature and the Genetic Imaginary’, in Franklin, S. Lury, C. and Stacey, J. Global Nature, Global Culture, Sage

2. Zylinska, J. (2005) ‘Bioethics and cyberfeminism’, in The Ethics of Cultural Studies, Continuum

3. Critical Art Ensemble, 'The Coming of Age of the Flesh Machine'

 

 

PART III: TECHNOLOGY IN THE MAKING: ART, CRAFT, POIESIS

 

8 Information Systems and the Body (Case study: new media art)

1. Hall, G. and Zylinska, J. (2002) 'Probings: An Interview with Stelarc', in Zylinska, J. (ed) (2002) The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, Continuum

2. Hayles, N. Katherine (1999) ‘Toward Embodied Virtuality’, in How We Became Posthuman, The University of Chicago Press

 

9 Beyond Theory and Practice: The Digital ‘Revolution’ in Publishing

1. Hall, G. (2008) ‘Introduction: Another University is Possible’ (pp. 1-5 only) and ‘Metadata I: Notes in Creating Critical Computer Media’ in his Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)

2. Hall. G. (2005) 'Cultural Studies E-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture Machine vol. 5.

3. Hall, G. 'Pirate Philosophy': a video lecture (2008) and a special issue of Culture Machine (2009)

4. Hayles, Katherine N. (2003) 'Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature', Culture Machine vol. 5.

5. Hammersley, B. (2010) 'E-Books - The Bigger Problem', Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent, 05/01/2010

 

10 Digital Futures, or Who Is Afraid of the Amateur Photographer?

1. Jack, I. (2009) ‘The Unstoppable Rise of the Citizen Cameraman’, The Guardian, 11.04.

2. Manovich, L. (1995) ‘The Paradoxes of Digital Photography’, Photography after Photography exhibition catalogue.

 

 

REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF EDITING THIS READER (a kind of blog)

 

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