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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blog post 10
One idea for the culture jam is Nike. The idea behind this is motto “just do it” and sweatshops. Nike is a brand that pushes the idea of needing their clothes and making the person feel the need to buy … Continue reading
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blog post 9
In “The Border Patrol State” by Leslie Marmon Silko I found the section about when Silko spoke about the erecting of an American iron curtain at the U.S- Mexico border on pages four to five interesting. Interesting in the sense … Continue reading
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blog post 8
While reading Haraway’s’ “Cyborg Manifesto” I encountered interesting ideas that was brought up by Haraway. One idea that is touched upon by Haraway is the meaning of being a human being. The “cyborg” as donna describes is partial organic and … Continue reading
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Blog post 7
Within the Trask readings the author mentions colonialism, and the process of colonization of the native peoples. In what ways did this misrepresentation of Hawaiian culture facilitate the colonization process, and what were the consequences for the Hawaiian people’s relationship … Continue reading
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Discussion question Jetmir/Nino group two
Discuss whether if the alphabetical organization should be valued more than topical organization in the context of the encyclopedia. Remediation within the context of “Writing Space” by Bolter is the repurposing or refashioning of a medium into something new. Printed … Continue reading
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blog post 6
An idea that stood out to me in Bolters “Writing Space, Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print” was how encyclopedias are a reflection of the time that we live in. In the chapter “Encyclopedic Order” on page eighty-four Bolter … Continue reading
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Technology/media exploratory essay
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10/5 revision plan
My plans for revising my paper would be to make it more cohesive and combine some of my sentences. I also intend to fix my last body paragraphs and make it more cohesive. I speak about some of the intended … Continue reading
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kvjhzytXSmGuwSMXavyquifukaeBAO9g-gwo2XMRz6s/edit The writing was okay. I finished it, and I do believe I adhered to the prompts set to a fair degree. However, I had trouble making it coherent for the reader. I felt like I was jumping from idea … Continue reading
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classwork 9/28/2023
One way of incorporating McLuhan into our writing is explaining his idea of cool and hot media and explain how my selected technologies operate. Another idea would be amputation into amplification. The technologies chosen should show how technology transitions from … Continue reading
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Blog post 4
CamScanner luhan 09-28-2023 11.45 (pg 104) What I was trying to get at with the artwork was the concept of McLuhan’s global village. The idea of the global village is with technologies like computers, television, and other advanced telecommunication devices, … Continue reading
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blog post 3/ tech lit narrative
tech_lit narrative CamScanner 09-21-2023 14.14 The idea that I was getting at with the drawing is McLuhan’s ideas of hot and cool media. While watching TV McLuhan talks about the strange paradox of how the viewers high involvement with images … Continue reading
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Blog Post Two/ tech lit narrative
ENG 1710 tech lit narrative McLuhan had an interesting approach to answering questions. He never had a fixed answer to questions and preferred to observe things in a multidimensional way. Things aren’t simple and there almost isn’t always a single … Continue reading
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blog post one “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change”
In Postmans “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change” he discusses technology and technological progress as a whole. Within his analysis he discusses five points about technology and how it affects humans and society. The first point postman … Continue reading
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