| 1. INTRODUCTION |
"The correct ... definition of technology still
does not show us technology's essence." |
Heidegger - On the Question Concerning Technology, Harper
1981, p.6)
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| Readings: |
Turkle, Life on the Screen, Ch.1, "A tale of two aesthetics."
Donald Norman - `The paradox of technology,' from
The Psychology of |
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Everyday Things (Basic 1986), 29-33
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Marina MacDougall -`Banalities of information' in
James Brook & |
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Iain Boal (eds.) - Resisting the Virtual Life
(City Lights, 1995), 207-219.
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Viewings:
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32
Short Films About Glenn Gould, Professional and
Amateur
Independence Day, Hostile Ships
Independence
Day, Attack on America
Independence
Day, Duel with Aliens
Independence
Day, Dissection
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"Who is exercising the will to power in the technical framework? ... Does the apparatus as a whole have
awill of its own?" |
William Barrett
- The Illusion of Technology, (Doubleday, 1979), 228-229
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"There are so many things that vibrate, that
talk, that move. There are so many machines everywhere. Electric
razors, electric billiard games, electric mixers,
fans, refrigerators, electronic calculating machines.
There are so many engines. ... The power of engines. Heat,
aluminium. Pistons, camshafts, valves, spark-plugs,
carburettors, jets, selector switches.
Enclosed in gleaming bonnets, snarling with their 105 genuine
h.p., pressing down upon the wheels. So many tyres and
wheels."
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J.M.G.LeClezio - War (Atheneum, 1973), p.190
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| "We have modified our environment so radically
that we must now modify ourselves in order to exist in this
new environment." |
Norbert Wiener - late 1940s, quoted in Barrett,
232
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"Machines and agents cling so closely to capital
that their very functioning appears to be miraculated
by it."
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Deleuze & Guattari - `The subject and enjoyment'
in Anti-Oedipus, pp.10-11
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2. MACHINE, MECHANISM, MECHANIZATION:
Industrial technology and its metaphorization
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Readings:
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New technology ads, from Wired, Dec. 1998,
148-158.
Excerpts from What's Inside Everyday Things
(Dorling Kindersley, 1992).
Marshall McLuhan - `Wheel, bicycle, airplane' from
Understanding Media (NAL, 1964), 162-169.
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Lewis Mumford - `Validation by the machine,' `Machines
as defective organisms,' |
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`The machine model re-examined,' `The failure of
mechanomorphism,' `Enter Leviathan on wheels,' and
`The machine as pedagogue' from The Myth of the Machine
(Harcourt,Brace & Jovanovich, 1970/1964), 65-73 & 86-98.
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Robert Frost - `The egg and the machine,' from Collected
Poems.
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Optional: Lewis Mumford - `The monastery and the
clock,' from The Human Prospect |
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(Beacon 1955), 3-9;
Jean Piaget - `Trains, motor-cars, and aeroplanes' from The Child's
Conception of Causality (Littlefield Adams, 1926), 226-235.
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Viewings:
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Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs
Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs Part 2
Fritz
Lang -
Metropolis,
Rotwang's Robot
Metropolis,
Moloch
Charlie
Chaplin-
Modern Times
Stephen
King -
Maximum
Overdrive, Auto-Terrorism
Maximum
Overdrive, We Made You
Maximum
Overdrive, Gun Machine
Dennis
Weaver -
Drive
Rachel
Talalay -
Ghost
in the Machine , Video Game Intruder
Ghost
in the Machine, Ghost busting
Ghost
in the Machine, Hot Link
Ghost
in the Machine, Bits of Ghost
Ghost
in the Machine, Phoenix Dremation
Fernand Leger
(1926)
Ballet Mechanique
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3. COMPUTERS and INFORMATION
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'The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It
can give you the exact mathematical design, but
what's missing is the eyebrows." (Frank Zappa)
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Readings:
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Raymond Barglow - `From automobiles to computers,'
`The technological mirror,' |
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`Identification,' `Information
-processing psychology' & `Recognition,' The
Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information (Routledge,
1995), 1-3, 11-18, 119-133, 151-162 & 104-118.
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Turkle, Life on the Screen, 'Fom a culture of calculation
to a culture of simulation,' (pp.19-26) & 'Aspects of self'
(Ch. 7).
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Katie McMillan - Ketsia interview (unpublished).
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John Broughton - `The surrender of control,' in
Doug Sloan (ed.), The Computer in the School |
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(TC Press, 1985).
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Optional: Robert Darnton - `No computer can hold the past,' New
York Times, 6.12.99, p.A15
Daniel Harris - `The aesthetic of the computer,' in James Brook
and Iain Boal (eds.), Resisting the Virtual
Life (City Lights, 1995), 195-203.
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Viewings:
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Brainscan,
Car Accident
Brainscan,
Game Player/Voyeur
Brainscan,
Mind Program Entry
Brainscan,
Evil Conquers Good
Twister,
Force as information
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"By means
of technique man changes not only the method
by which he thinks but the content of what he thinks
about."
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William Blanchard, quoted in Chris Gray,
Postmodern War
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"The popular failure of Johnny Mnemonic testifies
to the end of the charismatic phase of digital reality,
and the beginning of the iron law of technological normalization.
.... The lessons of the 90s have been multiple and they've been harsh: not the least of which is that
data will find a way, and its way is not necessarily
about becoming human. ... (The movie's) presence is a
bitter reminder of the decline of cyberpunk into the present
state of hyper-rational (hyper-marketplace) technology."
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"In the schools of the future, there will be
virtual libraries used by pupils working on laptop computers,
and teachers could be trained in teacher training
centers which exist only in cyberspace."
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Vivek Chaudhary - `Rich pickings for computer firms in virtual classrooms,' The Guardian,
1.17.98, 4
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4. AI, VR, ROBOTICS, and CYBERSPACE
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| Readings: |
Brian Aldiss - `Super-toys last all summer long,'
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http://www.alta.demon.co.uk/amk/doc/0068.html
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Rudy Rucker, R.U.Sirius, & Queen Mu - `Artificial
life,' `Cellular
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automata,' `Wireheads,' and `Consumer resistance,'
from Mondo
2000 Users Guide to the New Edge (Harper
1992), 30-41.
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Michael Heim - `The essence of VR' and `Virtual
reality check' |
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from The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford
1993), 109-138
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Simon Biggs - Multimedia, CD-ROM and the Net,' in
Lynn Hershman |
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Leeson (ed.) Clicking In (Bay 1996), 318-324.
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N.Katherine Hayles - `The seductions of cyberspace'
in Verena |
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Andermatt Conley (ed.), Rethinking Technologies
(Minnesota, 1993), 173-190.
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Kevin Robins - `Against virtual community,' Angelaki
1999, 4(2), 163-170.
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Optional: William Gibson - `Johnny Mnemonic,' from Burning Chrome |
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(1986); Stuart Sim - `The inhuman as narrative,'
from
Lyotard and the Inhuman (Totem 2001), 60-63.
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| Viewings: |
Rachel Talalay -
Ghost
in the Machine , Video Game Intruder
Ghost
in the Machine, Ghost busting
Ghost
in the Machine, Hot Link
Ghost
in the Machine, Bits of Ghost
Ghost
in the Machine, Phoenix Dremation
Brett Leonard -
Virtuosity
Robert Longo (1996) -
Johnny
Mnemonic, Virtual Reality
Johnny
Mnemonic, Brainful Uploading
Irvin Altman -
The
Net, Solo Interface
The
Net, Identity Loss
Cronenberg (1998) -
Existenz,
Entering the Game
Existenz,
New Pods
Singh (2000) -
The
Cell, The Dream Devil
The
Cell, Unconscious Descent
Paul Verhoeven -
Robocop, Autocop
Robocop,
Robo's Birthday
Robocop,
Shot in the Dark
Katheryn Bigelow
Strange
Days
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See also:
Tron,
Game Character (Steven Lisberger)
Tron,
Hacker injested
War Games
Lost in Space (Hopkins, 1999)
Cold Lazarus (Potter)
Final Mission
Synthetic Pleasures;
Virtual Assassin
VR - Lawnmower
Man (Chimp Man)
Wild Palms
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Audio:
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Arthur Kroker & Steve Gibson - `SpliceCulture/Johnny
Mnemonic,' from Spasm (New World 1993).
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"(T)echnical
knowledge takes the lead both in the cognitive system and in the hierarchy of social
regulation."
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Georges Gurvitch - The Social Frameworks
of Knowledge (Harper 1966), p.200
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"`Technology is a means to an end.' ... (This)
instrumental conception of technology conditions every attempt
to bring man into the right relation to technology."
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Martin Heidegger - On the Question of Technology
(Harper, 1981), p.5
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"Wherever
instrumentality reigns, there reigns causality.
... But suppose that causality, for its part, is veiled in
darkness with respect to what it is?"
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Martin Heidegger - On the Question of Technology
(Harper, 1981), p.6
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"Only when men could create material things
by intellect i.e., magically and technically, could they claim
superiority."
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Erich Fromm - Anatomy of Human
Destructiveness, p.181
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"We should recognize that cogency of the IDEA of the
state as an ideological power, and treat that as
a compelling object of analysis. But the very reasons
that require us to do that also require us not to
BELIEVE in the idea of the state, not to concede,
even as an abstract formal‑object, the existence
of the state."
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Philip Abrams - 'Notes on the difficulty
of studying the state', J.Hist.Sociol., 1988, 1(1),
58
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"The
danger of an exclusively technical civilization, which
is devoid of the interconnection between theory
and praxis, can be clearly grasped; it is threatened by a splitting
of consciousness, and by th splitting of human beings
into two classes -- the social engineers and the inamtes
of closed institutions."
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Jurgen Habermas - Theory and Practice,
Heinemann 1976, 282
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"We live in a world that is not our own, and
not ourselves,
And hard it is, in spite of blazoned days."
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Wallace Stevens, `Notes toward a supreme fiction'
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5. INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY
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"Men are grown mechanical in head and heart, as well as
in hand. ... Their whole efforts, attachments, opinions
turn on mechanism and are of a mechanical character.
This faith in Mechanism, in the all importance of
physical things, is in every age the common refuge
of Weakness and blind Discontent; of all who believe,
as many will ever do, that man's true good lies without
him, not within."
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Thomas Carlyle - `Signs of the times' (1829),
Works, vol.27 (New York: AMS Press, 1969),
pp.63,80
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| Readings: |
Herbert Marcuse - On technology. In Andrew Arato
& Eike Gephardt |
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(eds.), The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
(Urizen, 1974).
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Marshall Mcluhan - `Know-how,' from Mechanical
Bride (Vanguard |
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1951), 32-34.
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Jacques Ellul - `Characteristics of modern technique'
from The |
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Technological Society (Knopf, 1964), 78-116
only
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Optional: John Broughton - `Subjective and objective
reason,' from |
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Imaginary or symbolic dialogue, in M.Taruzzi-Goldsmith
(Ed.),
Lacan and War; Langdon Winner - Autonomy
and mastery, from
Autonomous Technology, 26-43.
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Viewings:
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6. PHENOMENOLOGY
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| Readings: |
Martin Heidegger - On the Question of Technology
(Harper, 1981). |
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Ingrid Scheibler - `Heidegger and the rhetoric of
submission: |
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technology and passivity' in Verena Andermatt Conley
(ed.),
Rethinking Technologies (Minnesota, 1993),
115-139.
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7. GENDER: The battle of the sexes
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| "Women and machinery do not mix."
(James Cameron - Titanic)
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"Objective knowledges can now be seen to be
situated and partial, not impartial, disembodied or transcendent."
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(KumKum Bhavnani, Tracing the contours: Feminist
research and feminist objectivity,' unpubd. 1992).
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"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably,
the most poetical topic in the world."
(Edgar Allan
Poe)
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| Readings: |
Sherry Turkle - `Mastery and gender,' `Gender and
science,' and |
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`Mathematics for softs' from The Second Self
(Simon & Schuster, 1984), pp.108-126.
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Tom Beaudoin - `Gendered ambiguity,' from Virtual
Faith (Jossey- |
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Bass, 1998), 138-139.
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Zoe Sofia - `Computers, gender, and technological
irrationality' |
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(unpublished ms., 1993).
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Stuart Sim - `Inhumanism and the internet' from
Lyotard and the |
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Inhuman (Totem 2001), 55-60.
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Donna Haraway - `Manifesto for cyborgs,' in Cyborgs,
Simians, and |
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Women.
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Optional:
Stuart Sim - `Celebrating inhumanism' from Lyotard and |
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the Inhuman (Totem 2001), 45-55.
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Review Piaget's claim about sex difference in the
mechanization of nature (2nd week, optional).
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| Viewings: |
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How should you walk in that space
And know nothing
of the madness of space
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(Wallace Stevens)
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"A mark
of status which daughters often recalled is space.
Fathers not only had work space outside the home
but
often had special space inside too. A basement workshop
for one father was private territory; as a treat,
a
daughter could be invited there to help. Another
client
described how her father found space in their crowded,
chronically unfinished house: he worked under the
family
car on Saturdays. No one was allowed to disturb
him in
this dangerous place."
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(Susan Contratto - `Father presence in women's psychological development,' in Jerome Rabow,
Gerald Platt & Marion Goldman (eds.), Advances
in Psychoanalytic Sociology (Malabar,
FL: Krieger, 1987), 138-158, p.146)
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"There
are always two parts of the journey: why you
leave and where you go."
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(Uma Thurman - `True stories', Sky International, Nov.1994, p.121 of 119-121)
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"We fear that if the people of Earth are allowed
into space in their uncivilized state, the results could
be disastrous beyond anything you can imagine."
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(Bruce Coville - My Teacher Glows in the Dark
Pocket, 31-32)
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8. SPACE and FLIGHT: outer-where?
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"I'm just afraid that we're gonna find something out there
that we can't kill."
Charles Taylor (designer and manufacturer of heating systems for
Apollo rockets)
"Near the Day of Purification there will be cobwebs spun
back and forth in the sky. ...A container of ashes might one day
be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land."
Hopi song (Koyaanisqatsi)
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Readings:
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Robert Romanyshyn - `Lift-off: we are all astronauts,'
fro
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Technology as Symptom and Dream (Routledge,
1989), 16-31.
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Roland Barthes - `The jet-man' from Mythologies
(Hill & Wang, |
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1972/1957), 71-73.
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Roland Barthes - `Martians' from The Eiffel Tower
(Hill & Wang, |
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1979), 27-29.
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Judith Barry - `Mappings: a chronology of remote
sensing' in |
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Jonathan Crary & Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations
(MIT 1992), 570-571.
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Jody Berland - `Mapping space' in Aronowitz, Martinsons
& Menser |
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(eds.) Technoscience and Cyberculture
(Routledge, 1996).
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| Viewings: |
(Alternative spaces):Fifth
Element, Urban Future
(Advanced tech): Independence
Day, Hostile Ships, Independence
Day, Attach on America, Independence
Day, Duel with Aliens, Independence
Day, Dissection, 2001,
Hal Sings "Daisy", 2001,
Ape to Space, Deep Space;, ForbiddenPlanet;
Contact.,
(Amazing science): Forbidden
Planet; Black Hole.
(Aggressive truth):2001,
Hal Sings "Daisy," 2001,
Ape to Space
(Aliens): Mars
Attacks;
Independence Day; Pitch Black; Missionto
Mars
(Evil): Event Horizon.
(Family/Gender): Apollo 13; Mission
to Mars
(The Thing): Deep Space; Lulu on the Bridge;
Forbidden
Planet.
(The Departure): Contact.
(The Fall): Koyaanisqatsi;
The Falls
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'(Man's) situation is the same in the theoretical as in
the practical sphere. Even here, man does not live
ina world of hard facts, or according to his immediate
needs and desires. He lives rather in the midst of
imaginary emotions, in hopes and fears, in illusions
and disillusions, in his fantasies and dreams. `What
disturbs and alarms man,' said Epictetus, `are not
the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things'."
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Ernst Cassirer, 1944, p.25
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"The historical moment of the philosophy of
the symbol
is the moment of forgetting and the moment of restoring:
forgetting hierophanies, forgetting the signs of
the
Sacred, losing hol dof man himself as belonging
to the
Sacred. This forgetting is the counterpart of the
imposing task of nourishing men and satisfying their
needs through a technical control of nature. The
dim
recognition of this forgetting is what bestirs us
to
restore the integrity of language."
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Paul Ricoeur, `The hermeneutics of symbols and
philosophical reflection,' in Regan & Stewart
(eds), The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, p.37
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"The psychoanalyst cannot for a moment doubt
that this
machine must be a symbol. ... (T)he complicated
machines
appearing in dreams always stand for the dreamer's
own
genitalia and ... the dreams are of a masturbatory
character."
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Victor Tausk, in Roazen 1990, p. 193
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"I dreamed I was getting
on a city bus. I had to, er, stamp a one-hundred franc note. ...
But the machine was blocked. ... The machine is in my dream, it
made a crunching noise as though it were chewing off a bit of the
note. `Obliterer votre billet' (cancel your ticket) -- I have trouble
pronouncing that word because it's so violent. `Obliterer' only
means stamp your ticket, but it's like stamping out, obliterating
a person. Total destruction. That machine is, my mother. The infernal,
maternal machine. ... My motehr made everything seem dirty. That's
why I couldn't even pronounce some of the words that came to mind
just now. They had to do with
excrement." |
`Benedicte', client of analyst Joyce McDougall, from `The
dead father: on early psychic trauma' in Dana Breen (ed.), The
Gender Conundrum (Routledge), 233-257, p.243
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| Readings: |
Victor Tausk - `The influencing machine' (1919),
in Jonathan Crary |
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& Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations
(MIT 1992), 542-569.
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John Broughton - `Machine dreams' in Robert Rieber
(ed.), |
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Individual, Society and Communication: Festschrift
for
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Gregory Bateson (Cambridge, 1990).
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Review the Technology chain fantasies and word associations,
and |
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Broughton data from the Bateson book. Come prepared
with one
of these, or some patterned theme you see, and
be sure to
introduce it into our conversation at some point
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Raymond Barglow - `Subjectivity' from The Crisis of the Self in |
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the Age of Information (Routledge, 1995),
81-93.
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Gillian Skirrow - `Hellivision' in Colin McCabe
(ed.), High Tech |
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Low Culture.
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| Viewings: |
(Mastery):
Fantasia
(Aesthetic): The Beach.
(Fantasy):
Dancer in the Dark #2; Brazil #3 Structures/ separations& #4 Metal
giant fight
(Sublime):
Dancer in the Dark #1.
(Influencing machine): Quatermass
and the Pit
(Influencing
Machine) Eraserhead
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"The new media are oriented towards
action not contemplation; towards the
present, not tradition. Their attitude
is
completely opposed to that of
bourgeois culture, which aspires to
possession, that is extension in time,
best
of all, to eternity. The media
produce no objets that can be hoarded
and
auctioned. They do away completely
with
`intellectual property' and liquidate the `heritage,'
that
is to say, the class-specific handing on of nonmaterial
capital."
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger - `Constituents of a theory
of the media' in Joan Hanrahan (ed.) - Video Culture:
A Critical Investigation, pp.96-123
(Rochester NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986), pp.104-5.
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10. TECHNOLOGY of PERCEPTION and IMAGE
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| "I am the cinema-eye.
I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, can show you the world as only
I can see it. ... I ascend with aeroplanes, I fall and rise together
with falling and rising bodies." |
Dziga Vertov, `Film directors - a revolution' in Screen
Reader 1, Society for Educn in Film and TV, 1977, 286.
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"(T)he
whole domain of cultural criticism in America is
basically cinema theory."
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Slavoj Zizek - `Civil society, fanaticism, and
digital reality,' interview by Geert Lovink
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Donald Norman - `Affordances,' from The Psychology
of Everyday |
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Things (Basic 1986), 9-11.
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Walter Benjamin - `The work of art in the age of
mechanical |
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reproduction' from Illuminations (Schocken,
1972).
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Roland Barthes - `The photographic message' (1961)
from Image |
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-Music-Text (Hill & Wang), 15-31.
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Susan Buck-Morss - `The self viewed.' |
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Unpublished paper 1979.
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Scott Bukatman - `The image addict' from Terminal
identity (Duke, |
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1993), 32-69.
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Pat Mellencamp - `Disastrous events' from High
Anxiety (Indiana, |
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1992), 90-139.
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Slavoj Zizek - `The Hitchcockian blot' from Looking
Awry (MIT, |
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1989), 88-97.
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Gilles Deleuze - `Preface,' `Translator's introduction,'
& |
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`Beyond the movement-image' from Cinema 2: The
Time Image (Minnesota, 1991/1985),
xi-xvii & 1-24.
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Rosalind Pollack Petchesky - `Fetal images: the
power of visual |
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culture in the politics of reproduction,' Feminist
Studies, 1987, 13(2), 263-292
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Video:
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(Still image): Memento.
(New techs of image): The Man with the X-ray Eyes; Forbidden
Planet
#2.
(Image secret): review Blade Runner; Blow Up;
(Fragmentation): Last Year at Marienbad; Eclipse.
Prosperos
Books Living Word
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"The new media are oriented towards
action not contemplation; towards the present, not tradition. Their
attitude is completely opposed to that of bourgeois culture, which
aspires to possession, that is extension in time, best of all, to
eternity. The media produce no objets that can be hoarded
and auctioned. They do away completely with `intellectual property'
and liquidate the `heritage,' that is to say, the class-specific
handing on of nonmaterial capital." |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger - `Constituents of a theory
of the media' in Joan Hanrahan (ed.) - Video Culture: A Critical
Investigation, pp.96-123 (Rochester NY: Visual Studies Workshop
Press, 1986), pp.104-5.
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| Readings: |
Michael Real - `Our media, ourselves: identity,
culture, and the |
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experience of supermedia,' from Supermedia: A
Cultural Studies Approach (Sage 1989), 13-36.
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Marshall McLuhan - `Introduction' and `The medium
is the message' |
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from Understanding Media (Signet, 1964).
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger - `Constituents of a theory
of |
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the media' in Joan Hanrahan (ed.) - Video Culture:
A Critical Investigation, (Rochester
NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986), 96-123.
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Gregory Ulmer - Remarks on Jerry Mander, from Teletheory |
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(Routledge, 1989), 68-72.
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Mary Ann Doane - `Information, crisis, catastrophe'
in Patricia |
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Mellencamp (ed.), Logics of Television (Indiana,
1990), 222-
232 only.
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Sherry Macaul, Jackie Giles & Rita
Rodenberg - `Intermediality in the classroom,' |
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Ladisalus Semali & Ann Watts Pailliotet (eds.),
Intermediality (Westview 1999), 53-74.
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| Video: |
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12. WEAPONS
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| "The
essence of technology is danger."
Heidegger |
| "Why does the professor teach the geography
of death?" |
(Pablo Neruda - The Book of Questions, #7. Port
Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1991/1974.)
|
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Manuel De Landa - from War in the Age of Intelligent
Machines (MIT |
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1992), 45-75.
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Kevin Robins & Les Levidow - `Soldier, cyborg,
citizen,' in James |
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Brook and Iain Boal (eds.), Resisting the Virtual
life (City Lights, 1995), 105-113.
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Paul Virilio & Sylvere Lotringer - from Pure
War (Semiotexte, 1983).
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John Broughton - `The bomb in the bathroom,' in
I.Lubek (ed.), |
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Recent Advances in Psychological Theory (Springer,
1995).
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Roy Greenberg - `War movies' from Screen Memories: Hollywood |
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Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch (Columbia,
1993).
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Paul Rogers - `The myth of the clean war,' in Jonathan
Crary & |
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Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations (MIT,
1992), 622-623.
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J.G.Ballard - `Project for a glossary of the 20th
century' in |
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Jonathan Crary & Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations
(MIT, 1992), 269-279.
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Review (above): Carol Cohn - `Sex and death'
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Optional: John Broughton - The virility of war.
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Video:
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Brazil #1
(Destruction/construction); True Lies.
Review Point
of No Return, Total Recall.
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13. BODY
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| "The body as a living machine is
now correlative with cars as vibrant and attractive organisms." |
McLuhan, `Husband's choice' from Mechanical Bride, p.84
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"All of us children, superficially satisfied
with the realistic limits of movie violence, woried over
our cuts and picked our scabs and wondered at the rich red
that coursed through our insides and occasionally came
to the surface...Then as now, we humans attempted to hide
from the frightening reality of our fragile innards by
fascinated, as we have always been, by blood and
tissue and bone."
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(Vivien Sobchak, in Atkins, Violence in the
Movies, 82)
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S.Giedion - `Movement,' `The Creed of Progress,'
from |
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Mechanization (Norton, 1948), 14-44.
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Marcel Mauss - `Techniques of the body' in Jonathan
Crary & Sanford |
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Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations (MIT 1992),
455-477 (originally in Sociology and Psychology,
Routledge, 1979/1950).
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Zoe Sofia - `Virtual corporeality,' Australian
Feminist Studies, |
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1992, 15, 11-24.
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Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari - `The desiring
machines' from |
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
(Minnesota,
1983), 1-20.
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Philip Turetzky - `Televisual bodies' in Chris Sharrett
(ed.), |
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Crisis Cinema (Maisonneuve, 1993), 103-115.
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Chris Gray - `The cyborg soldier: the US military
and the |
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postmodern warrior' in Les Levidow & Kevin Robins
(eds.),Cyborg Worlds: The Military Information Society
(Free Associations, 1989)
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J.P.Telotte - `The Terminator, Terminator 2, and
the exposed body,' |
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Journal
of Popular Film and Television, 1992, 20(2), 26-34.
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Arthur Kroker & David Cook - `Designer bodies'
from The Postmodern Scene |
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(St Martins, 1986), 20-26.
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| Viewings: |
Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs
Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs Part 2
Fantastic Voyage
Brazil #2
Domestic chaos
Hollow Man
Alien.
Eraserhead
Funky Chicken
The
Brothers Quay Dangerous Organ
Prospero's
Books Visceral-Fetal
Review: Total Recall, Blow Up.
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14. PSYCHOTECHNOLOGIES and the
SELF
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"I wish I were a machine."
(Andy Warhol)
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| Readings: |
Rene Magritte - `Domain of Arnheim,' `Two Mysteries,'
and `Evening Falls.'
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Tim Shallice - `Psychology and social control,'
Cognition, 1984, 17, 29-48.
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Barglow text - `Narcissism, mastery and identity,'
19-42.
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Scott Bukatman - `Cybersubjectivity and cinematic
being,' in Chris |
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Sharrett (ed.), Crisis Cinema (Maisonneuve,
1993),77-102.
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Michel Foucault - `Technologies of the self' in
Hubert Dreyfus & |
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Paul Rabinow, Between Structuralism and Hermeneutics
reprinted in Art After Modernism.
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Nikolas Rose - `Technologies of autonomy' from Governing
the Soul: |
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The Shaping of the Private Self (Routledge,
1990), 240-254.
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| Viewings: |
Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs
Tetsuo:
The Iron Man,Cyborgs Part 2
Tetsuo
2: Body Hammer, Body weapon
Tetsuo
2: Body Hammer, Prosthetic weaponry
Tetsuo
2: Body Hammer,War toys
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PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS
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