Schedule

	English 197: Digitalizing Culture
	Professor William B. Warner

Schedule of Readings

Readings not marked with one of the following icons are from required books for the course
= Reader = Online Only = Assignment Due

CLASS 1: April 3	INTRODUCTION
	Review of English 197 Requirements: English 197 Syllabus Resources for Lecture Fill out the online course entrance questionnaire asap (required). Buy required books at UCSB Bookstore & reader at Alternative Copy Shop.

	Part I: The Beginnings of Digitalization

CLASS 2: April 5	Information and Materiality
	READ: Hayles, "The Condition of Virtuality" Outline of Hayles essay, "The Condition of Virtuality"


CLASS 3: April 10	Computer Intelligence and Human Intelligence
	READ: Alan Turing: "Computing Machines and Intelligence" Lecture Resources Therapy with Eliza Jeremy Douglass: Machine Writing and the Turing Test


CLASS 4: April 12	Intelligence and Robots
	READ: Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Lecture Resources


CLASS 5: April 17	:Cybernetics: the Machine and Human's
	Norbert Weiner essays Lecture Resourses



CLASS 6: April 19	Workshop I: learning to do web pages
	Learning basic web page editing skills


CLASS 7: April 24	Workshop II (noon); Seminar: Michael Heim on Virtual Reality
	Special Seminar: Michael Heim on Virtual Reality: 4:00-6:30PM South Hall 2635 Michael Heim, "From Interface to Cyberspace," Michael Heim, “VR 101” Lecture Resources

Part II: the Cyborg, Cyberspace, and Cyberpunk Fiction


Wed. April 25	Screening: Wednesday, April 25, 5-7PM. South Hall 2635
	Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey Pizza will be served

CLASS 8:
April 26

Kubrick and Clark's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Lecture resources
One paragraph description of web site projects from each team


CLASS 9: May 1	The Cyborg: a
	READ: Arthur C. Clark, 2001: A Space Odyssey Lecture resources


CLASS 10: May 3	Accepting Hybridity: Human/ Animal/ Machine
	READ:Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” *Outline of "A Cyborg Manifesto"* Team Projects Defined Haraway's Manifesto: Lecture Resources

CLASS 11:
May 8

Cyberspace

READ: William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1-135.
READ: Philip K. Dick
Henry Jenkins, "A Short History of American Science Fiction"
Lecture Resources


CLASS 12: May 10	Cyberspace
	**READ: William Gibson, Neuromancer, 137-271.**


CLASS 13: May 15	The Digital Visual
	*READ:* Lev Manovich. “What is Digital Cinema?” Lecture Resources


CLASS 13: May 17	Preliminary Web Presentations by Each Team
	Presentation and discussion of each web project

CLASS 15: May 22

Software and the Virus

READ: Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash
Lecture Resources


CLASS 16: May 24	Networks
	READ: Snow Crash (continued): Lecture Resources *Quiz Questions*

CLASS 17:
May 29

The Database

Screening of The Matrix: Tuesday May 29: 10:00-12:00AM

READ: Lev Manovich, “Database as Symbolic Form”
Lecture Resources


Wed. May 30	Screening: Wednesday, May 30, 5-7PM. South Hall 2635
	Larry and Andy Wachowski, The Matrix Pizza will be served


CLASS 18: May 31	*What is the Matrix of the Matrix?*
	Lecture Resources


CLASS 19: June 5	Team Web Projects I
	Presentation of team web pages with delivery of site disk to Professor Warner


CLASS 20: June 7	Team Web Projects II
	Presentation of team web pages with delivery of site disk to Professor Warner

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Created 04/06/01 | Last revised 04/08/01