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: Elijaruhith
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. 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 11 and Final Culture Jams
Cabaret Academy “Sensation metaphysics, augmented in digital technology, builds out the human demand for self-stimulation, the appetites of sensory organs (the lamella) engaged through consumption of every kind, from drugs, coffee, spice, to body to body replication of behavior accomplished … Continue reading
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Ulmer’s Short list #1
Would you think of electracy as a paradigm shift? By Naila Naila’s explanation Ulmer states, “Socrates is a syncretic figure, partly oral, partly literate, the first person to experience Self.” I am a firm believer in Kuhn’s concept of paradigm … Continue reading
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Culture Jamming- BP 10
“Literacy put true/false into a machine and gifted it to electracy, to be applied in emergent ways, just as orality put speech into writing and gifted it to literacy. The object of electracy is das Dings, to use Freud’s term, … Continue reading
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post #8
“Paleolithic was animistic, regarding everything as alive, using magic to promote survival (life/death). Orality identified divine cause, creating religion and the institution of the church to address right/wrong behavior mandated by God. Literacy identified nature as a cause (Phusis), creating … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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DB #6
The Vital “Another experiment, conducted by Pascual-Leone when he was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, provides even more remarkable evidence of the way our patterns of thought affect the anatomy of our brains. Pascual-Leone recruited people … Continue reading
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4 & 5
Sound, language, and technology share a common connection. Each has its unique way of conveying and emitting certain messages. Throughout the post, I will define the ways they are connected. According to the article, “The souls of Black folk”, sound … Continue reading
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10/11/2022
(PAGE 26-27 Article Do Artifacts Have Politics?) What happened: The mechanical harvester was introduced in California. This harvester was a game-changer in the agricultural world.”This machine can harvest tomatoes in a single pass through a row, cutting the plants … Continue reading
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Elija’s Exploratory
Tech Exploratory project This project was very interesting and fascinating. I enjoyed every bit of it from researching to editing. I hope to receive feedback from my peers and professors to improve my writing for the final project.
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BP #3
The three articles have a similar message and content. For instance, the authors of all three articles emphasized the importance of orality and how it has impacted us throughout history. All authors portray a message that knowledge is manipulated in … Continue reading
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Bp #2
The author literally says that many activities wouldn’t exist without electric light. For instance, brain surgery, factories, electrical devices, etc. Intellectually one innovation led to another, for example, the invention of the telephone. Currently, we can access the world through … Continue reading
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BP #1
Gee “But a contrary current has developed, a current which sees literacy as necessarily plural: Different societies and social subgroups have different types of literacy, and literacy has different social and mental effects in different social and cultural contexts. … Continue reading
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Warm Up Elija Ruhith’s post
Hello, My name is Elija Ruhith. I am 22 years old, currently I am studying Human Services at City Tech. This is my last semester so I am looking forward to graduate and get myself into a better stable place. … Continue reading
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