Syllabus

Here is the syllabus we generated in the first class.

All readings should be completed by the day indicated:

1/12: Gibson, Neuromancer. Discuss WebCT functions and chat date.

1/19: Levinson, Soft Edge Chs. 12-19 and epilogue

Plant, Zeros and Ones (copy)

1/26: Stephenson, Snow Crash (Chs. 1-38)

Film: Johnny Nmeumonic

2/2: Stephenson, Snow Crash (finish)

Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (reader)

2/9: from Virtual Geographies (Imken, Light, Wakeford, Kneale, Bingham) (reader)

Film: The Matrix (outside class)

2/16: Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto," Stone, "Sex, Death and Machinery" (reader)

Rutsky, "Within the Space of High Tech" (reader)

Stone's homepage: http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~sandy/

Film: The Net (outside class)

2/23: Virilio, "Continental Drift" (reader)

Sinha, Cybergypsies

3/1: Virtual Culture (except Dietrich and Mitra)

3/8: Wired Women

Wilding, "Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism?
(http://www.obn.org/cfundef/faith_def.html)

3/15: Spring Break

3/22: Mitra (from Virtual Culture)

Kitalong, Jeganathan, Nakumura (reader)

Black Women on the Net: http://www.womenspace.ca/vol33e.html

3/29: Dietrich (from Virtual Culture)

Dery, "Robocopulation" (reader)

On line hypertext fiction (tba)

Film: Strange Days

4/5: Sullivan and Bornstein, Nearly Roadkill

4/12: Race in Cyberspace

4/19: Presentations