Study Materials
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Required Readings
(Outline numbers below are for ease of reference only; see Schedule
for order of readings)
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Required
Books Available at UCSB Bookstore
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(these
texts also available on library reserve)
- Albert Borgmann, Holding
on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of
the Millennium (U. Chicago Press, 1999)
- William H. Davidow and Michael
S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation: Structuring
and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century
(New York: Harper, 1992))
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
(New York: Ace Books, 1984)
- Walter J. Ong, Orality and
Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London:
Methuen, 1982)
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Required
Course Reader Available at the Alternative Copy Shop
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(Contents in Alphabetical
Order)
- Charles Bernstein, "You" (1983),
in Douglas Messerli, ed., Language Poetries: An Anthology
(New York: New Directions, 1987)
- Joseph H. Boyett and Henry
P. Conn, Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping
American Business (New York: Penguin, 1992), pp. 1-56,
244-58, 276-83
- Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy
of Paraphrase," in The Well Wrought Urn: Studies
in the Structure of Poetry (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1947, 1975) [rpt. in Hazard Adams, ed., Critical Theory
Since Plato, rev. ed. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1992)]
- John Seely Brown and Paul
Duguid, The Social Life of Information (Boston:
Harvard Business School Press, 2000), pp. 11-35
- Manuel Castells,
The Rise of the Network Society (1996), vol. 1
of The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture,
3 vols. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996-97), pp. 195-200
- Gidget Digit [pseudonym of Stephanie
Klein], "Sabotage: The Ultimate Video Game" (from Chris
Carlsson, with Mark Leger, ed., Bad Attitude: The "Processed
World" Anthology (London, New York: Verso, 1990),
pp. 59-66
- Johanna Drucker, The Visible
Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923
(Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 91-104, 238-47
- Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist
Society (New York: Harper, 1993), pp. 19-47
- Dick Hebdige, Subculture:
The Meaning of Style (London: Methuen, 1979), pp.
30-45, 52-54
- Michael Heim, Virtual Realism
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 3-28
- Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism
and Consumer Society," in Hal Foster, ed., The
Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Port
Townsend, Wash.: Bay Press, 1983)
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism,
or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham:
Duke Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 38-45
- Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium
is the Message," in Understanding Media: The Extensions
of Man (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994) [orig.
pub. 1964]
- Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on
the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 97-106, 154-82
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
(New York: Doubleday, 1990), pp. 3-16
- Peter Schwenger, "Agrippa, or,
The Apocalyptic Book," South Atlantic Quarterly
92 (1994): 617-26
- Jonathan Steur, "Defining
Virtual Reality," Journal of Communication
42 (1992): 79-90
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Works To Be
Purchased on CD-ROM
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Required
Online Works
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(Contents in Alphabetical
Order)
- Walter Benjamin,
"The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
(1936)
- John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid,
"The
Social Life of Documents" (1996) (FirstMonday)
- Bertram Bruce,
"The
Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" (2000)
- David Carson,
graphic design work (1990s) (sample images, password required)
- Critical Art Ensemble,
"Mythos
Information: Welcome to the Wired World The Mythology
of Terrorism on the Net" (1995)
- Critical Art Ensemble,
"Electronic
Civil Disobedience" (1995)
- William Gibson,
Agrippa
(A Book of the Dead) (1992)
- Andy Goldsworthy, photos
and selected
text (password required; restricted
to students in this course)
- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "A
White Paper on Information" (1998)
- Archibald MacLeish, "Ars
Poetica" (1926)
- Plato, excerpt from Phaedrus
(use your browser's search function and read from the
following sentence to the end: "But there is something
yet to be said of propriety and impropriety of writing")
- Julian H. Schaff, "Art
& Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction"
- Claude E. Shannon, "The
Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948), pp.
3-6
- Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism,
Socialism and Democracy
(1942), pp. 82-84 (on "creative destruction")
- Jan Tschichold,
The New Typography, trans. Ruari McLean (Berkeley:
Univ. of California Press, 1995) [first published 1928]
(sample
images and excerpts)
- William Wordsworth,
"Tintern
Abbey" (1798)
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Supplementary
Resources
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set of supplementary resources. Students in the course (and
visitors from elsewhere) are encouraged to suggest additional
resources by e-mailing the instructor.
The idea is to build a limited, highly selective set of materials
complementary to themes and works studied in the course. |
Supplementary Resources for
Class
1: Introduction |
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- Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman,
"Information Present and Past," in their Information
Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 1-8
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Supplementary Resources for
Class
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Supplementary Resources for
Class
12: From History to Information |
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- Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman,
"Information Present and Past," in Information
Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
(Johns Hopkins UP, 1998), pp. 1-8
- Smithsonian Magazine, "Searching
for the Window into Nature's Soul" (1997) (on
Andy Goldworthy; includes images)
- "Art
& Ecology: Ecological Art Galleries: Andy Goldsworthy"
(online exhibition of some images) (ArtsEdNet, J. Paul
Getty Trust)
- Nature
and Nature: Andy Goldsworthy (Mpeg and Realmedia
videos) (Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art)
- Andy
Goldsworthy Page (brief intro, some images, quotes
from Goldsworthy) (Center for Global Environmental Education,
Hamline U. Graduate School of Education, St. Paul, Minn.)
- Andy
Goldsworth Page (brief intro and some links to images)
(Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar C., Virginia)
- Andy Goldsworthy, Andy Goldsworthy:
A Collaboration with Nature (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1990)
- Robert Rosenblum, et al., The
New Romantics, Art & Design Profile Series, ed. Andreas
C. Papdakis (London: Academy Group Ltd., 1988)
- Goldsworthy
Bibliography (Matthias Behrens)
- Tom Troney, "A
Walk in the Park with Andy Goldsworthy" (short
poem about Goldsworthy)
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Supplementary Resources for
Class
13: (continued) |
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- Walter
Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland
and Kevin McLaughlin (Belknap, 1999) (Amazon.com
page on the book)
- Suan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of
Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1989)
- VoS Resources on Frankfurt
School
- Vos Resources on Benjamin
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Supplementary Resources for
Class
21: (continued) |
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- [see under Class
20]
- David Carson's graphic design
- David
Carson page (bio and images, including images
from Carson's early magazines: Transworld Skateboarding,
Beach Culture, Ray Gun) (Graphic Designers)
- David
Carson Links (Judy Litt / About.com)
- Interview
with David Carson (Adobe.com)
- "Six
Degrees of David Carson"
(Lisa Marshall, zero9)
- Reviews
of Works on Graphic Design and Typography
(Mantex)
Tracy
Pickle, Review
of David Carson's 1997 2nd Sight
- David Bennahum, "How
Things Should Look" (1997) (on the clash
between the paradignmatic design philosophies of Edward
Tufte and David Carson; use graphical nav bar on each
page to navigate to next page) (Feed) | On
David Carson's Ray Gun Magazine
- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "The
Other End of Print: David Carson, Graphic Design,
and the Aesthetics of Media" (1999) (Media
in Transition conference, MIT)
- Edward R. Tufte's graphic design
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Related
Courses
- Transcriptions courses at UCSB
(English Dept's "Literature & Culture of Information"
Specialization):
- Courses elsewhere:
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Guides
and FAQs
| Guides to
Online Research
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| Guides to Writing
and Citation Style
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Guides
to Technology in Transcriptions Courses (see Technology
overview)
- Web-Authoring
Basics (basic outline of the process required
to download, revise, and upload web pages associated
with Transcriptions courses)
- Resources
for Web-Authoring (design and how-to advice for
both beginning and advanced Web authors; includes
links to HTML and design style guides, help with images,
and examples of good and bad design)
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