Khazar DANM202

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• Location: Porter 245
• Time: Wednesday 12:10pm to 3:10pm
• Instructor: David Crane (Interview)

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Readings Group Schedule

Readings Questions

Presentations

• Benjamin's “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
• Cultural presentation on NetNoir
• Cultural Presentation on the Yiribana Gallery in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Final Project PDF
  
  

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Readings

week 1 11.01.06
cybercultures?

1. David Bell, An Introduction to Cybercultures chapters 1-5.
   My links

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week 2 18.01.06
technics

1. Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” ERES
   My online version
   My presentation
2. Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” pp2-35. PDF, ERES
3. Silverstone & Haddon, “Design and Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies: Technical Change and Everyday Life,” pp 44-74. PDF, ERES

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week 3 25.01.06
properties

1. Lessig, “Building Blocks: ‘Commons’ and ‘Layers,’” “Commons on the Wires,” pp19-48. ERES, Notes
2. Silverstone, “Proper Distance: Toward an Ethics for Cyberspace,” pp469-90. ERES
3. Mobile Cultures: Mullaly, “Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal.”
4. Morse, “Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework,” pp3-35. ERES
5. David Bell, “Bodies in Cyberspace,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 7.

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week 4 01.02.06
politics

1. Van Dijk, “Models of Democracy and Concepts of Communication,” pp30-53.
   My links
2. Bimber, “Information, Equality, and Integration in the Public Sphere,” pp229-49.
3. Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy” pp33-58.
   My links

Interesing Links

• Modal Logic
• Situationism
• The Society of the Spectacle video
• Can Dialectics Break Bricks video
• Nici's presentation links

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week 5 08.02.06
hybridities

readings:

1. essays to be determined from Vectors.
2. Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapter 2.
3. Deleuze & Guattari, “Introduction: Rhizome,” “Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines,” pp3-25; & 501-516.
4. David Bell, “Cyberspace Subcultures,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 8. Notes

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week 6 15.02.06
identities

1. Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapters 1, 3, 5, conclusion.

   • Notes on Chapter 1
   • Notes on Chapter 3
   • Notes on Chapter 5
   • Notes on Conclusion
2. Mobile Cultures: Introduction; Berry & Martin, “Syncretism and Synchronicity.”
3. Catherine S. Ramírez, “Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez” pp55-92.
4. David Bell, “Identities in Cyberspace,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 6.

My cultural presentation on NetNoir

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week 7 22.02.06
mobilities

1. Mobile Cultures: Hjorth, “Pop and ma”

   • My links
2. Mobile Cultures: Khoo, “Sexing the City.”

3. Genevieve Bell, “The Age of the Thumb: A Cultural Reading of Mobile Technologies from Asia,”

   • Notes
4. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines” pp399-425.

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week 8 01.03.06
transnationalities
My Cultural Presentation

1. Mobile Cultures: Boellstorff, “I Knew It Was Me”; McClelland, “Japanese Queerscapes”; Yue, “Paging ‘New Asia.’”
2. Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapter 4.

3. Christen, “Gone Digital: Aboriginal Remix and the Cultural Commons” pp315-45.

   • Notes
   • Cultural Presentation on the Yiribana Gallery in the Art Gallery of New South Wales

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week 9 08.03.06
presentations

readings to be determined by presenters

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week 10 15.03.06
presentations

readings to be determined by presenters

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Final projects due Monday, March 20

The reading for my final project is: Benjamin's Theses on The Philosophy of History