Name: ______________________________
350: 379: 01, Computers and Literature, Oral Reports Signup
By Tuesday, Sept. 30, select three (3) readings as scheduled in different units.
Include one novel: Shelley, Gibson, Stephenson or Chandler, Burroughs, Dick
Neil Spiller, Cyber Reader
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash
Sept. 30/Oct2. Postmodernism and cyberspace:
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)> [ ]
(Background for
Neuromancer: Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep [ ]
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch [ ]
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? [ ]
-- filmed as Blade Runner [ ])
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Thousand Plateaux: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia, 1980 [96-101] [ ]
Oct 7/9. Feminism:
Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto, 1985 [108-14] [ ]
Sherry Turkle, Constructions and
Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality, 1994 [208-14] [ ]
Anne Balsamo, Feminism for the Incurably
Informed, 1993 [202-07] [ ]
Oct 14/16. Miniaturization:
K Eric Drexler, Englines of Abundance, 1990 [116-25] [ ]
Greg Bear, Queen of Angels
(1991) [126-31] [ ]
Oct 21/23 Virtual reality:
Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992) [ ]
Howard Rheingold, The Origins of Drama and the
Future of Fun, 1991 [138-43] [ ]
Michael Heim, The Virtual Reality of the Tea Ceremony, 1998 [286-91] [ ]
Oct. 28/30. Architecture:
Marcos Novak, Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace, 1991 [150-57] [ ]
William Mitchell, Soft
Cities, 1995 [230-37] [ ]
Nicholas Negroponte, Iconographics, 1995 [256-60] [ ]
Nov. 4/6. Consciousness and AI:
Daniel C Dennett, An Empirical Theory of the Mind: Evolution of
Consciousness, 1992 [158-62] [ ]
Steven Levy, The Strong Claim, 1992 [170-76] [ ]
Greg Egan, Permutation City
(1994) [222-28] [ ]
Jeff Noon, Stash Riders, 1998 [184-89] [ ]
Nov. 11/13. The occult:
Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angles of Information, 1993 [190-95] [ ]
Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, 1999 [298-303] [ ]
Nov 18/20. Virtual sex / performance / robotics:
Mark Dery, Robocopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the
Future, 1998 [274-79] [ ]
Stelac, Toward the Post-Human, 1995 [262-69] [ ]
Hans Moravec, The Senses Have No
Future, 1998 [280-285] [ ]
Nov. 25/Dec. 2. War and peace:
Manuel de Landa, Policing the Spectrum 1991 [144-49] [ ]
John Perry Barlow, A
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996 [270-73] [ ]
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