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> Class readings PDFs (announced in class)

MAIN NOTIONS

Allegory of the Cave, from  The Republic, by Plato
Assemblage
Atomization: the fragmentation or disintegration of wholes into smaller parts, sections, and groups, including that of societies into isolated individuals
Commodity_fetishism
Deus ex Machina
Effective accelerationism vs. Effective altruism
Flat ontology: all objects, even those that are imagined, have the same degree of being-ness as any other object
Hyperreality: the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced societies.
Metabolic Rift: the material estrangement of human beings within capitalist society from the natural conditions which formed the basis for their existence
Modernity
moving parts originates from mechanical engineering when parts of a system are in motion & trigger complexity
Neo-futurism
Object-oriented ontology & hyperobject: privileging the existence of objects over that of humans
Onto-Cartography
Realpolitik
Technofetishism: an obssession with devices more than with interpersonal human relationships
Technofeudalism: economic and social power is concentrated through data extraction by a few Techno Lords (the vectoralist class) controlling information pathways and networks, hence monopolizing abstractions.
Unheimlich: the uncanny as a revelation of what is hidden not only from others, but also from the self. A return of the repressed.

LITERACY & REPRESENTATION 

> Civilization_and_Its_Discontents, by Sigmund Freud

>  The Future Is An Image

>  2001: A space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

> Marie-José Mondzain's Can Images Kill? 2008 -- What Does Seeing an Image Mean? 2010

> Erik Adigard's Framing By Design (and the explosion of mass imaging)

> Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis + The Three Ecologies

> In the Age of AI & Machine Learning, Frontline

- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

> Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451 book vs. film" in Newsweek-- 2018 version

> Politics and self in the age of digital reproduction

- Paul Virilio

- Marie-José Mondzain: Can Images Kill? 2008 -- What Does Seeing an Image Mean? 2010 

•• HyperNormalisation (2016)  Trailer + Century of the Self (2016) + Cant Get You Out of My Head (2021) by Adam Curtis

> Reflections on Hayek's Sensory Order.pdf

** Minjeong An (diagramatic self portraits)

> Dongba  iconography

MODERNITY 

> Tech secularization-comes-for-the-religion

** Slavoj Žižek's Don't Act. Just Think. | Big Think

** Keiichi Matsuda's Hyper-Reality

> Theodore Roszak's The Cult of Information, 1989

> Fjord Trends Report 2022 (trends & forecasts)

> Modernity and its Critics, Jane Bennett 

> Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle + Jacques Rancière, “The Future of the Image/The Surface of Design,” in The Future of the Image, (London, 2007) 

> Guy Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle + NYT article 

- Anthropocene & Capitalocene 

> Jean Baudrillard's America (1986) & Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

> Postcript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze video

> Gerald Raunig, A Thousand Machines. 2010 MIT Press-Semiotext(e) [image PDF]

> Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, Maurizio Lazzarato, 2014

> 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary

> Ignacio Valero: How Free is Free? in What We Want is Free. Critical Exchanges in Recent Art (SUNY, 2nd Edition, 2014), Ted Purves & Shane Aslan Selzer (eds.) (pdf)

> “Emotariat Accelerationism and the Republic of Data,” Ignacio Valero, in Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (London: Routledge, 2020)

> Douglas Rushkoff, media, technology, and social theorist

> Georges Bataille’s Accursed Share, The Meaning of General Economy (the way we exploit "excess" energy defines who we are)

> “How Free is Free?” Ignacio Valero in What We Want is Free. Critical Exchanges in Recent Art (2014) (pdf)

> Maggie McKosky’s Product Design Principles in the Age of AI

> Michael Bell & Eujong Seong's Encrypting the Sun

> Millions of Chinese Men Desperately Seeking A Wife (video)

•• Ben Cerveny "Metabolizing Complexity" lecture

> on Bauhaus: In The Age Of Social Media (EOD) 

** Instravel / a photogenic mass tourism experience

** Claude Lelouch's C'était Un Rendez-Vous (a fast drive through Paris)

** Tom Kan for Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void title sequence

** Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey / SpeedOdyssey 

** Erik Adigard's 1968 Powers of 2001 mash up of Powers Of Ten & 2001: a space odyssey

> Superstudio & Archigram

** H5's Logorama (fast drive through a brandscape)

MACHINISM

** Carla Diana's My Robot Gets Me / podcast

John Alderman's Designing Across Senses: A Multimodal Approach to Product Design (2018)

> Mike Kuniavsky's Smart Things. Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design + PDF

> Socks's overview of Les Immateriaux, an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985

> Adam Turl's “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction”  [»as .docx]

> Karl Marx's “Commodity Fetishism” 

> Willem van Weelden & Daniel de Zeeuw on machinism (LIMA Online)

> Joan Heemskerk (JODI) & Heath Bunting (LIMA Online)

> Brian Christian's The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values, 2021, explores the past, present, and potential future of AI. 

> 2,000 years-old Antikythera mechanism as oldest computer?

> Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler's Anatomy of an AI system, 2018

** 1984, Apple commercial / Chiat Day

** Toyota builds a smart city (via CNN) 

> “Machines Are Not Alone” @ CAC, Shanghai 

> Naomi Klein's The Battle For Paradise  + No Logo 

> Sanford Kwinter's Far From Equilibrium

> Chris Salter's Entangle + Sensing Machines

** Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief, 1949 

** Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (intro mix)

- Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, 1936 

> Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera, 1929- Stéphane Vial's Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception

> Stéphane Vial's Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception

- Black Mirror series

> Plastic Dynamism a manifesto by Umberto Boccioni

> Inclusive Design's How to Recognize Exclusion in AI

** Ryoji Ikeda micro|macro  (2015) + Data.path (2013)

THE LIVING
•• Timothy Morton in Conversation with Verso

> SD4SI.org: Ideas Arrangements Effects

> Donna-Haraway / staying-with-the-trouble (Chthulucene concept)

> Ilya Prigogine (dissipative structures and their role in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium)

> systemicalternatives.pdf

> Tomas Saraceno

•• Arrival: Aliens and Radical Translation

> UrbanThinkTank

> How to decode the far-right symbols at the Capitol riot (NYT article)

> Superstudio & Archigram

> Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics by Yuk Hui (Word version)

> The Question Concerning Technology in China, Yuk Hui, 2016, PDF read pages xiii to 57

•• Sinofuturism (1hr) 4mn edit

> Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse 

> Bruno Latour:  We Have Never Been Modern + The Critical Zone

> John Thackara:  How To Thrive In the Next Economy

> Philippe Descola: on post-western humans-non-humans

THE ARTIFICIAL

> Tim Morton: Hyper Pandemic, The New Yorker  + **  Dawn of the Hyperobjects

> Donna Haraway:  CCTV On Primates clip + Cyborg Manifesto

> Levi R. Bryant:  Flat Ontology, Questions, and Assemblages - text file

> “The Ontic Principle: Outline of an Object-Oriented Ontology,” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism

> Driving the Human Festival: (NON-)HUMAN debate (80mn video)

> Macrocosm_and_microcosm

•• Fritz Lang:  Metropolis (1927) full version

•• My Robot Boyfriend (Liang Zhen Hua, Chu Zheng) 

- Alex Garland: Ex Machina

> Ray Kurzweil's singularity

** Wind Map, FlightRadar24 & Radio Garden


THE SELF

> Shoshana Zuboff:  The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019 (Wikipedia)  •• “short lecture” + ”SC documentary”

> Emotional Labour in 2018? (BBC)

> hypermodernity, on Urban Dictionary / "On Hypermondernity", by John David Ebert- The Machine, by Maurizio Lazzarato

> Gilles Deleuze: Societies of Control and Antipsychiatry, Guattari 

> Machinic Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari, an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use

> Maurizio Lazzarato: Signs and Machines: Capitalism & Production of Subjectivity

> Bernard Stiegler:  For a New Critique of Political Economy, 2010 ••on Pharmakon, 2019

> Everything is For Sale Now. Even Us (NYT opinion piece)

> "Hyper-Objects" (on design & anthropocene)

> The Agony of Eros, Byung-chul Han (pdf) 

> Neoliberal Perfectionism, Psychological Bulletin 

•• Millions of Chinese Men Desperately Seeking A Wife (video)

- Black Mirror series 

- Claude Faraldo: Themroc

> Idolatry as related to issues of representation, and notions of commodity fetishism and techno-fetishism

REPRESENTATION

> Plato's Cratylus, on the nature of language

THOUGHT LEADERS

- Gaston Bachelard, on philosophy, poetry, science, arts and the environment

- Michel Foucault, on “power/knowledge” and biopolitics

- Walter Benjamin, philosopher, literary critic & social critic 

- Jean Baudrillard, sociologist, philosopher & cultural theorist

- Bernard Stiegler

- Alan Turing, The Enigma

- Theodor Adorno, German philosopher & sociologist

- Roland Barthes, (intro to semiotics by D.Chandler) / Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981)

- Luis Borges, On Exactitude in Science (1946)

- Jaron Lanier, computer scientist (VR pioneer) & composer 

- Stéphane Lupasco, on non-Aristotelian logic

- Tim Morton: all objects, from rocks to trees, live in interdependent co-existence with humans.

- Paul Virilio, urbanist & theorist - link - Virilio Live

- Umberto Eco, semiotician, author & philosopher 

- Bruce Sterling, technology culture theorist (see Youtube)

- Kevin Kelly, writer & technology theorist 

- Paul Saffo, futurist

- Roland Barthes, semiotician (intro to semiotics by D.Chandler) 

- Camille Paglia, writer & social critic

- Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher & aesthetics theorist

- Sanford Kwinter, architecture theorist »CCA lecture

- Aaron Betsky, curator, museum director, author

- Marshall Mcluhan, philosopher & communication theorist 

- Ben Cerveny, entrepreneur & technology theorist

- Marie-José Mondzain, philosopher & image theorist

- Lev Manovich, new media theorist

- George Kubler, art historian

- Massive Change Network / Manifesto

- Char Davies (on virtual reality)

- Quantumrun forecasts 

- Rem Koolhass Delirious New York 

- Santiago Ramón, neuroscientist, pathologist & histologist specializing in neuroanatomy & the central nervous system

- Thomas Piketty, economist reveals deep  inequalities and explores alternative options

- Slavoj Žižek

INSTITUTIONS, FEEDS & JOURNALS

Journals: Eye On Design (AIGA) + designobserver.com + Disegno daily (free download) + e-flux (theory) + MIT Technology Review + Hyperallergic  + The Baffler + Art Practical (underrepresented perspectives) + Ephemera Journal : theory & politics in organization

 Academy of ideas a thirst for knowledge

TheGuardian - Washington Post/innovations - Wired - Fast Company/design

Kanopy (free via local libraries high quality version of Netflix)

OpenSourcePublishing (experimental publishing, including fonts)

Institute for the Future (trends & forecasts)

Lectures: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium + Center for New Media  + Gray Area + LongNow + Swissnex

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