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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Monthly Archives: December 2022
Final Reflection
Dear Professor Leston, Attached to this blog post is my final reflection of the semester. Thank you for this insight and interesting semester. I hope to encounter you once again before my anticipated graduation. Thank you for your teachings and … Continue reading
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Final Reflection
Thank you for a great semester! Happy Holidays! Final Reflection
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BP 14 | Final Reflection
Thank you for all the knowledge you gave me throughout this semester. This class was difficult, but it wasn’t impossible to get through. It was clear as to what you wanted for any assignments. You were open and honest when … Continue reading
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BP 13
My Question was ‘Although you think that electracy is the future, do you think it is the demise of our motivation?’ He began by expressing that we are already an electorate. That we have been exposed in many ways to … Continue reading
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BP #13
My question to Professor Ulmer was, “How can we use electracy and its elements, attraction and repulsion, as a tool to address the Anthropocene?” He answered the question starting with describing the Anthropocene being a combination of all disasters rolled … Continue reading
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BP 13
My question to Professor Ulmer was: Does electracy emerge from adding emotional value (sentiment and nostalgia) to the metaphysical world? I was happy to hear Professor Ulmer’s response to this question as it cleared up some of the ideas I … Continue reading
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Bp 13
My question to Greg Ulmer was “Is the Era of electracy affecting our mental health negatively? If yes, what steps can we take to prevent future damage? Professor Ulmer answered the question comprehensively. For example, he began answering the question … Continue reading
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BP 13
The question I asked Professor Ulmer was: how can we resist the negative portions of electracy that impacts our everyday life in society? The answer I received was a bit confusing until I heard that we can’t avoid the negative … Continue reading
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BP 13: Ulmer Meeting
My question to Ulmer was Will digital education continue to corrupt the minds of students and deter them away from traditional learning establishments? When asking this question to Ulmer, his response was that there would be a change of curriculum … Continue reading
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BP#12 Melody
Do you think there will be another tier (ex:religion) that changes electracy? And will one of the tiers fade out? I asked this question because I think things are changing everyday and I wonder what will pop up in the … Continue reading
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BP12
Question | Although you think that electracy is the future, do you think it is the demise of our motivation? When it comes to how Ulmer wrote about electracy, he wrote it in a way that would be the way of … Continue reading
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BP 12, Ulmer Question
Question: How can we resist the manifestation of negative portions of electracy that impacts our everyday life in society? What is acceptable is society over the last few decades has caused individuals to overuse technology and other habits. We do … Continue reading
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BP 12: Ulmer Question
Will electracy in digital education continue to corrupt the minds of students and deter them away from traditional learning establishments? I ask this question because I know that technology came to the rescue during the pandemic lockdowns. Some students continued … Continue reading
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Bp. 12
Is electracy affecting our mental health negatively? I tend to ask myself this question a lot since we are exposed to many visions and things on the internet. So, often I wonder if being exposed to this much information is … Continue reading
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BP 12, Ulmer Question
Q: Does electracy emerge from adding emotional value (sentiment and nostalgia) to the metaphysical world? I find myself thinking whether electracy is bound to happen or whether we steer the wheel and add emotional value to the metaphysical world, thus … Continue reading
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BP# 12 Ulmer Question
How will electracy shape society? I ask this question because the foundation of electracy seems to be based on human desire and the advancement of technology to fulfill these desires. If society becomes shaped less on what’s needed for our … Continue reading
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