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MACHINE DREAMS

Alexei Taylor, Author

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Class Bibliography

Required Texts:

Blum, Andrew. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. New York: Ecco/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. 

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. 

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories. New York: Pantheon Books 1995.

Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Hockney, David. Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of Old Masters. New York: Studio (Penguin Group), 2006. 


Course reader on Blackboard (corresponding to order on the syllabus):

Weberman, David. “The Matrix: Simulation and the Postmodern Age.” In The Matrix
and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real. Ed. William Irwin. Peru, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 2002. pp 225-239 (NYU Classes)


Lancelin, Aude and Jean Baudrillard. “The Matrix Decoded: Le Nouvel Observateur Interview with Jean Baudrillard.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 1, Number 2 (July 2004) http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol1_2/genosko.htm

Horace. Ars Poetica. Trans. A. S. Kline, 2005.
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceArsPoetica.htm


A S Papadogiannis, M C Tsakoumaki, T G Chondros. “’Deus-Ex-Machina:’ Mechanism Reconstruction in the Theater of Phlius.” In Corinthia. Journal of Mechanical Design. 132: 38. (Jan 2010) pp 87-104.

Euripides. Medea. Trans. Ian Johnston.
Medea http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/euripides/medea.htm


Appleton, R. B. “The Deus ex Machina in Euripides.”
The Classical Review, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (Feb. - Mar., 1920), pp. 10-14
http://www.jstor.org/stable/698227


Sanders, Barry. “Bang the Keys Swiftly: Typewriters and Their Discontents.” In Cabinet. Issue 8, Pharmacopia, (Fall 2002), pp 194-201.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/8/keys.php


Kittler, Friedrich, Dorothea von Mücke, and Philippe L. Similon, “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.” In October. Vol. 41, (Summer, 1987), pp. 101-118
http://www.jstor.org/stable/778332


Turing, Alan, Richard Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson and Max Newman. “Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said To Think?” In The Essential Turing. Ed. Jack B. Copland. Oxford: UP 2004, 487-506.

Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In Screen 16.3 (Autumn 1975) pp. 6-18 https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+Narrative+Cinema

Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991, pp.149-181.
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto.html


Said, Edward W.  “Emily Jacir: Where We Come From.” In Emily Jacir: belongings. Works 1998-2003. OK Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria, 2004, pp 46-59

Jacir, Emily, Roland Wäspe,Andreas Baur. Selections in Emily Jacir. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Galerie der Stadt Esslingen. Nürnberg. Verlag für Moderne Kunst. 2008.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969, pp 217-251.

Goldman, Danielle. “Ghostcatching: An Intersection of Technology, Race and Labor.” Dance Research Journal, 35/2 and 36/1 (Winter 2003 and Summer 2004) pp 68-87.

Snickars, Pelle. “The Archival Cloud.” In The Youtube Reader. Eds. Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau. National Library of Sweden, 2009.
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