Primary Texts Fall 2023
- Alan Jakobs: After Technopoly
- Bolter: The Electronic Book
- Bolter: Writing as Technology
- Coover: The End of Books
- Critical Art Ensemble: Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance
- deLeon: Technological Warfare
- Haraway: Cyborg Manifesto
- McLuhan for Beginners
- Neil Postman: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Postman: Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change
- Pratt: Arts of the Contact Zone
- Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
- Silko: Border Patrol
- Trask: From a Native Daughter
- Turkle: Video Games and Holding Power
- Wanono: Detournement as a Premise for Remix
Ulmer
Authors Fall 2023
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Online Readings
- A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
- A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
- Ain't No Walls behind the Sky, Baby! Funk, Flight, Freedom
- Digital Latinx Storytelling: testimonio as Multimodal Resistance
- Jenkins: What do you mean by Culture Jamming? Part 1
- Jenkins: What do you mean by Culture Jamming? Part 2
- Not the King: Cantando el Himno Nacional de los Estados Unidos
- Postman: Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change
- Pranking Rhetoric: âCulture Jammingâ as Media Activism
- Soundwriting and Resistance: Toward a Pedagogy for Liberation
- The Sixth Extinction? (New Yorker)
- The Ulmer Tapes
Soundwritings
Surveillance
- Blinding the CyclopsâWrecking the Panopticon Camera Hunting in the Metropolis
- Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say
- The Convenience-Surveillance Tradeoff
- The Employer-Surveillance State
- The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
- The Three Major Forms of Surveillance on Facebook
- Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
Films
Sites
- Ambient Information Systems
- Autonomous University
- Beautiful Trouble
- Billboard Liberation Organization
- Bureau of Inverse Technology
- Copwatch
- Critical Art Program, City College
- Digital Manifestos
- Essential Information
- Hollaback (street harassment)
- Institute for Applied Autonomy
- NYC Surveillance Camera
- Public Sphere Project
- Souveillance course syllabus
- Tactical Media Course Syllabus
- The surveillance camera players
- The Yes Men
- UN Human Rights Issues
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Post #7
Barthes Studium and Punctum form “Camera Lucida” Studium On the surface, the photograph above is quite explanatory; people raising their hands as the sun sets in the background. Although we donât know why the hands are being raised, we understand … Continue reading
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Blog Post 7
1.    2. My first image is an example of Studium because the background is blurred and the picture focuses on the man. As a spectator, my evaluation of the intentions of the operator, the photographer,  is that he wanted to take … Continue reading
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Blog Post 7
At first, I found it quite difficult to grasp the idea of “studium” until I finally understood it. Once I was romanticized by the word, the only image that came to me … Continue reading
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Blog Post 7
This graffiti was done by the infamous Bansky. One of the worlds most renowned and anonymous artists. His works canvas the sidewalks from London to Israel and take on various political and social issues. Rage The Flower Thrower is nothing short of … Continue reading
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Blog Post 5 & 6
Oral culture has been destroyed by print technology. Everything starting from man has been homo to a usual conformity. If youâre not homogenized, youâre almost like the outcast. Men were alienated if they werenât part of the norm. Women were … Continue reading
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Blog Post #4
This article, âOrality and Literacyâ by Walter J. Ong was a very interesting reading. Technology has become apart of our everyday lives and we use it everyday making human daily tasks more simple and easier as ever. How I view … Continue reading
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Blog Post #5 and #6
Blog Post #5 and #6 âThe interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world.â The chapter highlights the difference between non-literate natives and literate natives and … Continue reading
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Blog Post 5 & 6
In the novel âGutenberg Galaxyâ Iâd have to say that I found the entry âIn antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloudâ (page 94) excruciatingly interesting. To summarize and tell you what the text is about is … Continue reading
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Blog Post 5 & 6
1. “Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy” I believe this entry in  Gutenberg Galaxy, highlights the idea that due to literacy we have created people with a split personality. But in this creation the two personalities thrive off of … Continue reading
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The Deaf
In the class we have discussed the power of speaking in literate cultures and non-literate cultures however we have failed to shed light on the deaf population. We have not mentioned the people whom are unable to hear and listen. We … Continue reading
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