Jan. 7 Th Introductions, Syllabus
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Jan. 12 T McLuhan, excerpts from Gutenberg Galaxy in Essential McLuhan (packet), Read the 11 sections that start with the following subheadings:
Jan. 14 Th McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media in Essential McLuhan (packet)
“Introduction” and “The Medium is the Message,” 149-161
“The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis”
“Hybrid Energy,” 174-179
“Is It Natural…,” 180-182
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Jan. 19 T Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, Chapters 1-2
Jan. 21 Th The Crying of Lot 49, Chapters 3-4
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Jan. 26 T The Crying of Lot 49, Chapters 5-6
Jan. 28 Th Rucker, The Hacker and the Ants, 1-156
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Feb. 2 T The Hacker and the Ants, 157-308
Feb. 4 Th Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
“The Gulf War will not take place,” pages 23-28
“The Gulf War: is it really taking place,” out of a total of 38 sections, read the following: 1-4, 6-7, 12-16, 20-21, 23, 25-26, 28, 32, 35, 38
“The Gulf War did not take place,” out of a total of 23 sections, read the following: 1, 8, 17-18, 21, 23
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Feb. 9 T Virilio, excerpts from Desert Screen (packet)
“The Squared Horizon,” 16-20
“Interview,” 31-34
Borges, “Garden of Forking Paths” (on wiki)
Feb. 11 Th Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden, reading highlights TBA (read at least 2 hours)
Don't forget these tips for reading Victory Garden
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Feb. 16 T Victory Garden (read for at least 2 hours)
Feb. 18 Th Victory Garden (read for at least 2 hours)
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Feb. 23 T Rose, “Secret Websites, Coded Messages”
Start playing The Nethernet
Paper 1 Due
Feb. 25 Th Charles Stross, Halting State, 1-98
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Mar. 2 T Halting State, 99-212
Mar. 4 Th Halting State, 213-324
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Mar. 9 T Moulthrop, “From Work to Play” (packet)
Jane McGonigal, “Why I Love Bees” (packet)
Mar. 11 Th House of Leaves, front cover - 24 (Read all material: prefatory, cover, appendixes, footnotes, exhibits as you come to them)
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Mar. 15-19 Spring Break
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Mar. 23 T House of Leaves, 24-79 (don’t miss the footnote on p. 72 that asks you to read a large chunk of the appendix, 584-644)
Mar. 25 Th Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, excerpts from Remediation
“Introduction,” 2-15 (packet)
“Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation” 21-50 (packet)
“Mediation and Remediation,” 53-62 (packet)
“Digital Photography,” 105-112 (on wiki)
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Mar. 30 T House of Leaves, 80-245
Apr. 1 Th Winterson, The.PowerBook, 1-141
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Apr. 6 T Jacques Derrida, “The Book to Come” (packet)
N. Katherine Hayles, excerpt from Writing Machines (packet), “Material Metaphors , Technotexts, and Media-Specific Analysis,” 18-33
Apr. 8 Th The.PowerBook, 143-end
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Apr. 13 T House of Leaves, 246-346
Apr. 15 Th House of Leaves, 347-422
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Apr. 20 T House of Leaves, 423-528
Apr. 22 Th House of Leaves, catch-up
Conclusions
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Apr. 26 M Paper 2 Due by 5pm EST to bcroxal@g.clemson.edu.