Week 2 - January 25 and 27,
2005
Representations of the Web in Popular Culture
- Tuesday: Group Project 1: Fiction and Print Media
- Thursday: Group Project 2: Film and Visual Media
Assignments
Fiction for Tuesday
- William Gibson, Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Marge Piercy, He, She and It
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?
- Astro Teller, Exegesis
Films for Thursday
- Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
- eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
- The Net (Irwin Winkler, 1995)
- Copycat (Jon Amiel, 1995)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow, 2003)
- Matrix 1- 3 (The Wachowski Brs., 1999-2003)
- 2001:Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Sphere (Barry Levinson 1998)
- Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
- AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
- Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995),
- Johnny Mnemonic (Robert Longo, 1995),
- You’ve got Mail (Nora Ephron, 1998)
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
- Denise Calls Up (Hal Salwen, 1995)
- Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner, 1997)
- eMale (Brian Harston, 2001)
Secondary Literature:
- For Tue: N. Katherine Hayles, “The Seductions of Cyberspace ” RDC, 305-321.
- David Tomas, “The Technophilic Body: On Technicity in William Gibson’s Cyborg Culture,” CCR, 175-189.
- Scott Bukateman, “Terminal Penetration,” Terminal Identity 183-240 or CCR 149-174.
- For Th: Forest Pyle, “Making Cyborgs, Making Humans: Of Terminators and Blade Runners ” CCR, 124-137.
- Alison Landsberg , “Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner” CCR 190-204
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