We will look at cyborg culture and the prospects for creating a new library of Alexandria.
Readings:
Cyborg Culture
- “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (The text is available on Google Books, pp. 28-37)
- “Johnny Mnemnonic” (There is an alternative online version here. You may want to copy the text into a Word processor to make it more readable.)
- “The Theory of the Virtual Class”
- Pranav Mistry, “Sixth Sense Technology”
- Videos for Born Digital
- “The Long Tail”
- “False Friendship”
- “Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube”
- Eric Faden, “A Fair(y) Use Tale”
A New Library of Alexandria
- “The Medieval Help Desk”
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Notes for a Technologies of Writing Seminar”
- Carlin Romano, “Will the Book Survive Generation Text”
- “Is Print Dead? (Is It Really?)”
- Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” (La biblioteca de Babel)
- “Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books”
- “Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars”
- “Scholars Elicit a Cultural Genome From 5.2 Million Google-Digitized Books”
- “Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books”