This is just a list of some of the readings for the theory side of the course that have particularly interested me...
Social Reading and Writing
Katherine Hayles 'How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine' - http://mla.org/adefl_bulletin_d_ade_150_62.pdf
Alan Liu 'The End of the End of the Book: Dead Books, Lively Margins, and Social Computing' - http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-book/
Visual Culture
Walter Benjamin (1973) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' - http://design.wishiewashie.com/HT5/WalterBenjaminTheWorkofArt.pdf
Nicolas Carr 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ (another interesting piece, definitely worth a read. More modern than Benjamin's)
Surveillance
Foucault (1975) 'Panopticism' in Discipline and Punish
- http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/courseblog/files/2011/03/michel-foucault-panopticism.pdf
Gilles Deleuze (1992) 'Postscript on the Societies of Control'
- https://files.nyu.edu/dnm232/public/deleuze_postcript.pdf
Geo, Space and Location
Kitchin (2011) 'The Programmable City'
http://www.envplan.com/epb/editorials/b3806com.pdf (explores the idea of the city as a computer, in the literal sense)
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