A. Required Books Available at UCSB Bookstore

1. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot. New York: Bantam Books
2. Arthur C. Clarke, 2001/ A Space Odyssey. New York: Penguin Books (25th anniversary edition).
3. William Gibson, Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books.
4. Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books

B. English 197 Course Reader Readers may be purchased at the Alternative Copy Shop; 6556 Pardall Road; Isla Vista (968-1055).

 

English 197 Reader Hayles, Katherine. "The Condition of Virtuality." Ed. Peter Lunenfeld. The Digital Dialectic. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 68-94. Reader page____. Turing, Alan. "Computing Machines and Intelligence." Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. LIX: 236-260; October, 1950. Reader Page____. Weiner, Norbert. Selected articles for a popular audience. Norbert Weiner: Collected Writings, Volume 4. Ed. P. Masani. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. Reader Page_____. "Cybernetics", Scientific American. 1948. 784-789. "Men, Machines, and the World About," 1950. 793-799. "The Electronic Brain and the Next Industrial Revolution," 1952. 666-672. "The Brain and the Machine." 684-688. "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation," 1960. 718-721. "Machines Better Than Men?" 1964. 722-724. Heim, Michael. "From Interface to Cyberspace." The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 72-82. Reader Page____. Heim, Michael. "VR 101." Virtual Realism. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 3-32. Reader Page____. Dick, Philip K. "Preface" The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. New York: A Citadel Twilight Book, 1990. xiii-xiv. Reader Page____. Haraway, Donna J. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature . New York: Routledge, 1991. 149-182. Reader Page____. Manovich, Lev. "What is Digital Cinema?" The Digital Dialectic. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 172-192. Reader Page____.