While there is a text indicated for each week, the discussions will not necessarily be thorough. These references are intended as frameworks for our conversations throughout the term. It is my hope that they will help contextualize our reflections on our works within a few loose coordinates such as Technohumanity, Environment and new notions of ‘Reality’.
In its initial state, this is a broad list of sources that informed (to varied degrees) the conception of this course. It will continue to grow to reflect our conversations- a task I hope we all contribute to.
- The Moment of Cubism
- Bernard Stiegler – culture as the heart of a new economical and industrial development
- Bernard Stiegler: man & technics:(1)
- The Accelerating Techno-Human Future
- The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
- A Theory of Technology
- Haraway- A Cyborg Manifesto
- An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanismand the Biopolitical
- Elizabeth Grozs- Chaos, Territory, Art
- Simondon of the Desert
- Why the Future doesn’t need us
- The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
- Bammé- Basic Questions About Metaphysics of Technology: Spengler, Heidegger, Günther
- Bammé- Science, Technology, Society
- Terence Mckenna – Catalyzing Consiousness, Language, and the Role of Artists
- Terence Mckenna – A Spark To Ignite A New World
- Nick Bostrom – The Simulation Argument
- TUTORIAL: HOW TO ANIMATE TEXT
The Conquest of Ubiquity-
https://mtyka.github.io/make/2015/09/12/the-conquest-of-ubiquity.html
Very important text. Plz read. Thx.
Hi everyone!
Last year I read a book named “A Short History of Progress” by Ronald Wright and I think it may be relevant to this course. Also, there is a documentary based on the book. If you are interested in watching it, you can find it on youtube but its quality is not so good. here is the link to the documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGyU6MEstjU
The story of Prometheus and Epimetheus is central in Alexander Galloway’s critique of accelerationism:
http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/brometheanism
The Idea of the University by Ian Wallace
10 pages essay that talks about the ideality and ideology that universities institute
https://blogs.ubc.ca/visa401e/weekly-assignments/week-1-the-idea-of-the-university/