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
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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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Author Archives: Ahmad713
Creative Detournement Final Product
Nike “slave” labor The picture compares the working conditions to that of the Jewish prisoners in work camps during WWII. I felt this was an important topic because these people tend to be forgotten often. People … Continue reading
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Response 13
One idea that I have in regard to the project after reading Duncombe’s piece, is that we should try and stay away from concepts and images that feels or looks the same as mainstream ‘resistance’. People encounter ‘resistance’ everyday, having the … Continue reading
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Project ideas
I had so many ideas for the project, here are three I thought were pretty good. One is stolen from Jordan though, just thought it was so clever, had to make it.
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Some hacktivism I can get behind
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-anonymous-declares-war-isis-1528882
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Response 12
One of the strategies in the Dominguez piece that he speaks about using, is the use of digital media as well as internet technology to display a sort of nonviolent protest and state that he supported the Zapatistas. They were … Continue reading
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Response 10 and 11
Response 10 I found this image quite interesting. It’s a sort of direct attack on a way of life in America. The iconic white Cadillac and television, what could be more representative of that time period in this country. The … Continue reading
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In Class Prompt
Acts of activism can be fun on many levels. Many of the things that I saw when I was doing searches on “detournemat” were jokes and things that made a solid point while also being quite humorous. Another example of … Continue reading
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In Class Response
I wasn’t able to get very much work done in just 40 minutes. I was able to access the databases and do a bit of research on my topic. Some of the information that I was able to find seems … Continue reading
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Response 8
1. “”When you’re designed against, you know it””, says Ocean Howell, who teaches architectural history at the University of Oregon, speaking about anti-skateboarding designs. “Other people might not see it, but you will. The message is clear; you are not … Continue reading
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Response Number 3
I feel that there are many aspects to the concept of a Technopoly that Postman speaks about. One of which is that the aim of Technopoly is to make all aspects of work a sort of science. To remove the … Continue reading
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Response Number 2
1. “It leads to my second qualification. As the spirit of Thamus reminds us, tools have a way of intruding on even the most unified set of cultural beliefs. There are limits to the power of both theology and metaphysics, … Continue reading
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Response 1
1. Hello all! I’m Ahmad Ali, and I’m a computer engineering student here at City Tech. I have a wide variety of interests, ranging from the seemingly obvious, such as diagnosing and repairing computers, to reading and writing poetry. I … Continue reading
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