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Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Reader

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General information about this project

 

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. Poster 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. Morello, J. (2007) 'e-(re)volution: Zapatistas and the Emancipatory Internet' A Contracorriente Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, vol. 4, no. 2, 54-76, available in http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_07/Morello.pdf

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

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

6. Kelly, K. (ongoing) The Technium

7. Video clip from No Maps for These Territories (2002): 'William Gibson on technology'

 

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. Cascio, J. (2005) 'The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon', Open the Future

3. The Surveillance Camera Players

4. Adam Curtis Documentary-BBC   The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom?

5. Lyon, D. (1994) The Electronic Eye. The Rise of Surveillance Society, Polity Press

6. Staples, William G. (2000) Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in postmodern life, Rowman & Littlefield

 

3 Globalisation and Empire

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

2. Terranova, T. (2004) Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age, Ann Arbor: Pluto Press

3. Galloway, A. R., (2004) Protocol, MIT Press

4. Appadurai, A., ed. (2001) Globalization, Duke University Press

5.  Zizek, S. (2001) 'Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the 21st Century?', Rethinking Marxism 13, 3/4

 

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'

4. Easterling, K. (2005) Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades,MIT Press

5. Sterling, B. (2007) 'Dispatches from the Hyperlocal Future', Wired 15.07

 

 

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

3. Video from Frank Theys: 'The Transhumanist's Wet Dreams - Posthuman'

 

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"’

3. Horning, R. (2009) 'Confessio Fraternitatis: Twitter as Spiritual Exercise', Generation Bubble, 30/11/2009

 

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'

4. Kember, S. (2003) Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life, Routledge

 

 

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

4. Stelarc. 'The Body is Obsolete'. Contemporary Arts Media.

5. Mackenzie, A. (2002) 'Infrastructure and individuation: speed and delay on Stelarc's Ping Body', in Mackenzie, A. (2002) Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed, Continuum

6.  0100101110101101.org aka Eva and Franco Mattes (2007- ongoing), 'Reenactments' and 'Synthetic Performances'

7. (from Viviana Miliaresi) URL: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__4Ca-kcaiRc/S2H3W5nHZZI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/6lJF_0XZo50/s1600-h/Bild+7-715199.png

8. (from Viviana Miliaresi) URL: http://www.annsofieback.com/blog/archive/2010_01_01_archive.html

 

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

6. Adema, J. (2009) 'Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing', Open Reflections, 20/09/2009

7. Derrida, J. and Stiegler, B., 2002. Echographies of Television. USA:Blackwell Publishers Inc.

8. Kelty, C. (2008) Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke University Press.

9. Lessig, L. (2004) Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. New York : Penguin Press.

10. Keen, A. (2008) The cult of the amateur : how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values. London : Nicholas Brealey.

 

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.

3. Coleman, R. (2007) 'Picturing civic journalism: How photographers and graphic designers visually communicate The Principles of Civic Journalism'Journalism 8; 25

4. Gilmor, D. (2006) 'The Decline (and Maybe Demise) of the Professional Photojournalist', Center for Citizen Media Blog

 

11 A BONUS: A GALLERY-WITHIN-A-BOOK

1. 'Everyone is an artist', or, are we all media producers now?

 

 

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