• Buy required books at UCSB Bookstore
• Buy course reader at Alternative Copy Shop
• Pick up sticker for use of Instructional Computing labs (if needed) in Phelps Hall courtyard (bring syllabus or other proof of being in this class)

Readings Due:

• William Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"
• Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," "L'Art, 1910," "Alba," "Gentildonna," "April," "Heather" [in Pratt]
• William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" [in Pratt]

Readings Due: all of the following are in Pratt:

• William Pratt, "Introduction" to The Imagist Poem
• F. S. Flint, "Beggar," "Fragment"
• Ezra Pound, "The Jewel Stairs' Grievance," "Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord," "Liu Ch'e," "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
• H. D., "Oread," "Epigram (After the Greek)," "The Pool," "Orchard," "Heat," "Storm," "Sea Rose"
• Richard Aldington, "Lesbia," "Epigrams," "Images," "Evening"
• William Carlos Williams, "Nantucket," "Poem," "Queen-Ann's-Lace," "A Sort of a Song"
• Amy Lowell, "Wind and Silver," "The Pond," "A Lover," "A Year Passes," Irradiations VII"

Readings Due:

• NCSA "Beginner's Guide to HTML," Part I

Readings Due:

• T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) (pp. 3-26 of the Norton Critical Edition of The Waste Land)

Readings Due:

• T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (continued)
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" [in Pratt]
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" from The Well Wrought Urn (1947)

Readings Due: All of the following are in the reader

• Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923, pp. 91-104, 238-47
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (poet) and El Lissitsky ("book constructor" or designer), For the Voice (1923): "Our March," "Order No. 2.," "And You, Could You?"
• El Lissitzky, "Topography of Typography" (1923)
• Barry Seldes, "Sensibilities for the New Man: Politics, Poetics, and Graphics"

Readings Due:

• Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928), pp. 52-99
• See also sample images and excerpts from Tschichold (requires course password)
Special Optional Event: Lev Manovich will give a talk in the UCSB Digital Media Lecture Series sponsored by the Media Arts & Technology Program on Monday, April 29th, at 4 pm in the e-studio on the 2d floor of the Art Studio Dept.

Readings Due:

• Paul Rand, "The Beautiful and the Useful," "Integrating Form and Content," "Design and the Play Instinct," and selected examples of Rand's designs from his A Designer's Art

Readings Due:

• As preparation, please browse Victoria Vesna's Web site and get a sense of her work

Readings Due:

• Fredric Jameson, ""Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1983) and Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), pp. 38-45

Readings Due:

• Poetry Preview's introductory essay on Language Poetry
• Susan Howe, from Pythagorean Silence; from The Liberties
• Lyn Hejinian, from Writing Is an Aid to Memory; from My Life; from Redo
• Barrett Watten, "X," "Relays"
• Ron Silliman, "DEMO" [sample this work]
• Bob Perelman, "Writing," "Clippings"
• Charles Bernstein, "The Sheds of Our Webs," "Stove's Out," "You"

Readings Due:

• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
  [read at least half the novel by this date]
• help on the concept of entropy
• help on the concept of information entropy

Readings Due:

• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
  [finish the novel]

Readings Due:

• David Carson's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
• April Greiman's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)

Readings Due:

• Lev Manovitch, The Language of New Media (2001), pp. 18-48, 123-45, 218-28
• Curt Cloninger, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground, "Introduction" and the chapters on "Gothic Organic Style," "Grid-Based Icon Style," and "Lo-Fi Grunge Style" (for a look at the sites Cloninger mentions, browse the Web site for his book)

Readings Due:

• Curt Cloninger, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground, chapters on "Pixelated Punk Rock Style" and "Drafting Table/Transformer Style" (for a look at the sites Cloninger mentions, browse the Web site for his book)