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
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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
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- Institute for Applied Autonomy
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- Public Sphere Project
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Response 14
Duncombe has definitely written a provocative article about the game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He analyzes Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as  rebellious, participatory, open-ended, and fun.  He essentially gives the pros and cons of the game in a fashion that engages his readers … Continue reading
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Response 13
“Weaned on endless advertisements, sitcoms, and Hollywood movies, we’ve learned to find comfort in compelling narratives and change the channel when confronted with messy facts” (Duncombe 7). This particular sentence illustrated to me that society is afraid of the hard, … Continue reading
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Word Choices Matter When Confronting Mental Illness- Creative Detournament
Words are powerful, and for too long, the words to describe mental illness have been loaded with negativity and judgment. Words like “psycho,” “wacko,” and “crazy” can add to the stigmatization of people with mental illness. Stereotypes are barriers that can prevent … Continue reading
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Response 12
Electronic Disturbance In “Electronic Disturbance: An Interview” one of the first actions Dominguez engages in, is what he called a “butt-in”. The context of the world usually refers to intruding upon or interrupting someone or something. In the case of … Continue reading
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Response 11
“Electronic Disturbance: An Interview” about Ricardo Dominguez is about the life of Ricardo Dominguez and how he gradually  became known for being among the first to bring artistic activism to the technological realm through his role in Electronic Disturbance Theater, which … Continue reading
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The Art of Necessity: The Subversive Imagination of Anti-road Protest and Reclaim the Streets
“Direct action takes the alienated, lonely body of technocratic culture and transforms it into a connected, communicative body embedded in society. Taking part in direct action is a radical poetic gesture by which we can achieve meaningful change, both personal … Continue reading
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In Relation to Smith’s “White Anxiety: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof and the Future of Race in America”
Hey guys check the video out! It’s a must see. White People Documentary on MTV
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Response 8
Anti-homeless spikes “If some take more than they need, others go without. We obsessively focus on the external: carbon emissions, recycling, charity work, social security, saving the snow leopard — all of them excellent goals–Â while doggedly refusing to look inwards … Continue reading
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Exploratory Paper
Exploratory Paper_ENG1710 My topics of interest for this paper are: 1. Stem cell research 2. Stigmatizing mental illness 3. Identity theft and identity fraud I gathered most of my information from primarily EBSCO and I attempted to draw some insight through medical journals/articles … Continue reading
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Response 5
Manuel Castells: “Occupy Wall Street” “We demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. It’s time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we’re doomed without it.” Literally: With President Barack … Continue reading
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Response 4
The reading of the three essays along with the documentary The Corporation, the recurring theme seemed to be communication through media and getting at the truth in its totality. Postman’s “Media as Epistemology” resonates or echoes McLuhan’s “Reversal of the … Continue reading
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“Cultures may be classified into three types: tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. At the present time, each type may be found somewhere on the planet, although the first is rapidly disappearing: we must travel to exotic places to find a … Continue reading
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Hey guys! So my name is Folayemi Akinbolaji, Fola for short. I was born in New York City but my parents are from Nigeria so that is also my home. I have three sisters and we are all very much … Continue reading
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