Week 10 Lecture Notes

Topics

Lecture: Introduce Little Brother.

Weekly Memorandum (Write about the first part of Little Brother–introduction through chapter 7 and our lecture today. Think about how themes in the novel connect to our previous readings and other things that you know about–fiction and real life)

Read for next class:

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. E-book, https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/, 2008, chapters 8-15.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

https://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/thoreau/civil.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_whistleblowers

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-on-callers-without-courts.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/a-halfcentury-of-surveillance.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZ54n6g0Yw&t=2387s