About five years ago a youtuber named Dan Brown set off to conduct a grand experiment. For one year of his life, all decisions (expect those that would harm his health or any relationships with his loved ones) would be made by the internet. At this point in time Dan had hundreds of thousands of followers, myself included. And we were tasked with taking full control of his life. The community would post ideas about what he should accomplish, and the most popular ones Dan would have to do. Right away it was voted that he should move. And we voted that he would move out of his parents basement in Nebraska and go live in San Francisco. And he did! For a short while it was amazing to be a part of this. But it quickly turned against itself. The community could rarely agree on anything. The only things that were ever accomplished were silly tasks like “Spend the day at the park” or “Eat a whole stack of pancakes” It was no longer a grand experiment. Dan wanted to see how his life would change for better or worse at the hands of the internet. Sadly, neither better or worse came of it. And after only four months, he scrapped the idea and moved back home.
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: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism
- Soundwriting and Resistance: Toward a Pedagogy for Liberation
- The Sixth Extinction? (New Yorker)
- The Ulmer Tapes
Soundwritings
Surveillance
- Blinding the Cyclops—Wrecking 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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Is all of this offline and gone? I can’t find any of this on youtube.