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Schedule | |
Readings
not marked with one of the following icons are from required
books for the course =
Reader  =
Online Only  =
Assignment Due |
| Introduction: Creativity in the New Economy | |
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Question: What is the New Economy?
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| Clip: Once
and Again, air date 11/28/00 Technology focus: precision reading |
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I. Desire & Identity in Late Capitalism | |
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CLASS 2: 01/11/01 quotes syllabus |
Hip Capitalism |
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Question: does capitalism absorb most
or all creativity for its own ends?
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| Douglas COUPLAND, Shampoo
Planet, 3-89 |
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CLASS 3: 01/16/01 quotes syllabus |
From Civil Rights to Cultural Diversity |
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Question: Do large organizations value
individuality and identity?
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| COUPLAND, Shampoo Planet (cont) |
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CLASS 4: 01/18/01 quotes syllabus |
Diversity and Efficiency |
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Question: Are diversity and efficiency
in conflict? How are they
negotiated?
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| Jill NELSON, Volunteer Slavery:, pp. 102-end. |
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II. The Magic of the System | |
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CLASS 5: 01/23/01 quotes syllabus |
Engineering Culture |
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Question: To what extent can innovation
be traced to systems of disciplined training?
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| Tracy KIDDER, The Soul of a New Machine, pp 3-203 |
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CLASS 6: 01/25/01 quotes syllabus |
The Centrality of the Human Factor |
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Questions: What role do psychological
factors like interest and enjoyment play in innovation? What is the role of competition?
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| Tracy KIDDER, The Soul of a New Machine, PP 204-382.
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CLASS 7: 01/30/01 quotes syllabus |
The Group Solves the Problem |
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Question: How could technological innovation
come from group “chemistry”?
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| Tim BERNERS-LEE, Weaving
the Web: The Original Design
and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, PP 1-122 |
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CLASS 8: 02/01/01 quotes syllabus |
New Human Relations Theory |
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Question: What role does “individualism”
play in innovation?
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| Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, PP 123-209. |
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III. The New Individualism | |
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CLASS 9: 02/06/01 quotes syllabus |
The Heroic Entrepreneur |
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Question: what role do “new economy”
thinkers assign to individual “entrepreneurs” (in contrast to groups,
teams, whole professions, governments and nations?
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| Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story pp. 13-159. |
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CLASS 10: 02/08/01 quotes syllabus |
Distortions of Monopoly |
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Questions: Does the new economy have
a bias toward size and concentration?
If so, how does size and concentration interact with innovation?
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| Michael Lewis,The New New Thing, PP 160-268
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CLASS 11: 02/13/01 quotes syllabus |
Creativity and Natural Selection |
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Question: what is the impact of biology-based
understandings of change and evolution on our understanding of human
creativity?
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Paulina BORSOOK Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp
Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech, PP 1-171. |
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CLASS 12: 02/15/01 quotes syllabus |
Big Government, the Innovator's Friend |
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Questions: does innovation depend on
government orchestration as well as private investment? Does government-sponsored research seem more
or less innovative than individual or corporate research?
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| Paulina Borsook Cyberselfish, pp. 172-264
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IV. Reimagining Labor | |
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CLASS 13: 02/20/01 quotes syllabus |
The Persistence of Craft Labor |
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Question: Does innovation depend on
some version of “free labor,” and if so, why?
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| Po Bronson, The First Twenty Million is Always the Hardest, PP 1-150. |
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CLASS 14: 02/22/01 quotes syllabus |
The Sources of Revolution |
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Question: What are the personal or
“human” qualities that sustain creativity and innovation?
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| PO Bronson, The First Twenty Million is Always the Hardest, PP 151-291. |
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CLASS 15: 02/27/01 quotes syllabus |
Innovation and Emancipation |
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Questions: Is the new economy accompanied
by a new corporation? How
are things for the “cubicle dwellers”?
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| Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin, Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web, pp. 3-161. |
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CLASS 16: 03/01/01 quotes syllabus |
Defensive Individualism |
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Question: What is the relationship
between self-defense and creativity? Does corporate management require
self-defense at the expense of creativity?
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| Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin, Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web,
pp. 165-246 |
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CLASS 17: 03/06/01 quotes syllabus |
Free Agent Nation |
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Questions: What are the possibilities
for independent or self-managed work? What difference would it make if we really were “free agents”?
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| Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
, PP 1-93.
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CLASS 18: 03/08/01 quotes syllabus |
The Hacker Paradigm |
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Question: What are the advantages of
disorganization?
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| Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle, pp. 94-177 |
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CLASS 19: 03/13/01 quotes syllabus |
Democracy as Creativity |
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CLASS 20: 03/15/00 quotes syllabus |
Infinite Creation |
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