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SIMULATION OF BODY AND DESIRE (3 credits)
A demonstration of a reconfigured body in cyberspace and multiple selves between desire and technology.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Stone, Allucquére Rosanne. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. MIT Press. October 1995, 212 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0262193620. Buy it at Amazon.com.
August 1 1996, 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0262691892. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Zylinska, Joanna. The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age Technologies-Studies in Culture and Theory. Continuum; ISBN: 082645903X; (June 2002). Buy it at Amazon.com.
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NANOPHILOSOPHY: INVISIBLE REVOLUTION (3 credits)
Foregrounds the submicroscopic world of media and communications — the developing nature signaling and their troubled relationship with informatics of domination and control far beyond the Orwellian imaginary.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0192860925 Buy it at Amazon.com.
Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Wiliams, Microcosmic God: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon, Theodore. Short Stories, V. 2.) North Atlantic Books, ISBN: 1556433018. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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