Schedule
South Hall 2635, Tue., Thurs., 2-3:15
(note change of location; previously scheduled for Girvetz Hall) (printer-friendly
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I. The Nature of Information |
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Readings
not marked with one of the following icons are from required
books for the course
= Reader 
= Online Only  =
Assignment Due 
= Supplementary Links
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CLASS 1:
Sept. 30 |
FROM NATURE TO INFORMATION
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CLASS 2:
Oct. 5 |
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- Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality, Intro &
Chaps. 1-5
- Andy Goldsworthy's "land art" (photos
and selected
text) (password needed; restricted to
students in this course)
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CLASS 3:
Oct. 7 |
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CLASS 4:
Oct. 12 |
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- [Workshop 1 for Team Online Projects]
- Begin reading ahead for next class
Break into teams and begin brainstorming about possible projects.
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CLASS 5:
Oct. 14 |
SPEAKING, WRITING, READING,
INFORMING |
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- Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman, "Orality
and the Problem of Memory"
- Plato, from Phaedrus
(use your browser's search function and read from the following
sentence to the end: "Shall we discuss the rules of
writing and speech as we were proposing?")
- Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" (1947)
- Borgmann, Chap. 8
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline (1990), pp. 238-49
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to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 6:
Oct. 19 |
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CLASS 7:
Oct. 21 |
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II. Acts of Information
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CLASS 8:
Oct. 26 |
COMMUNICATING |
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CLASS 9:
Oct. 28 |
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E-mail to Prof.
Liu a breakdown
of how you have
distributed individual responsibilities for your team project.
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CLASS 10:
Nov. 2 |
MEDIATING |
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- Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"
and "Media Hot and Cold" (1964)
- Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding
New Media (1999), 3-50
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to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 11:
Nov. 4 |
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- [Workshop 3
for Team Online Projects]
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CLASS 12:
Nov. 9 |
SEEING/DESIGNING
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CLASS 13:
Nov. 11 |
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Between Classes 13 and 16, each team is
assigned one other team's project to critique.
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CLASS 14:
Nov. 16 |
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- Paul Rand, A Designer's Art, pp. 3-23,
39-44, 189-201
- Matt Kirschenbaum, "A
White Paper on Information" (1998)
- David Tomas, "From the Photograph to Postphotographic
Practice: Toward a Postoptical Ecology of the Eye"
(1996) [in Druckery]
- Roy Ascott, "Photography at the Interface" (1996)
[in Druckery]
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CLASS 15:
Nov. 18 |
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- Annunciation Paintings (from icons to Quattrocento)
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic
of Late Capitalism, pp. 107-29 (on Frank Gehry's architecture)
- Borgmann, Chap. 10
- Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, Chaps. 2-3 (on
the "desktop" interface, on "windows")
- Kim H. Veltman, "Electronic Media: The Rebirth of
Perspective and the Fragmentation of Illusion" (1996)
[in Druckery]
- Lev Manovich, "The Automation of Sight: From Photography
to Computer Vision" (1996) [in Druckery]
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 16:
Nov. 23 |
WORKING |
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- Peter Senge, from The Fifth Discipline, pp. 3-16
- Boyett and Conn, Workplace 2000, pp. 1-58, 276-83
- William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual
Corporation (1992), pp. 184-216
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to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 17:
Nov. 30 |
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CLASS 18:
Dec. 2 |
(SIMULATING) LIVING |
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- Borgmann, Chap. 14
- Jonathan Steur, "Defining Virtual Reality,"
Journal of Communication 42 (1992): 79-90
- Slavoj Zizek, "From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization
of Reality" (1996) [in Druckery]
- Steven Johnson, from Interface Culture, Chap. 1
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to facilitate class discussion)
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III. Information and Difference
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CLASS 19:
Dec. 7 |
BEYOND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY |
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CLASS 20:
Dec. 9 |
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- [Formal Presentation of Team Online
Projects]
Explanation.
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Final essay due Dec.
13th by 5 pm in
Prof. Liu's mailbox in English Dept.
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