Readings Due:
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 2 and Lexicon Linkmap, (p 4 – 33, 72)
Hayles, Writing Machines Online Lexicon Linkmap; peruse linkmap with particular attention to materiality and form (click on web supplement and then on the picture of the open book to access the linkmap)
Erik Loyer, “Webtake” on Writing Machines; read webtake with particular attention to materiality and form.
Reading Eye Dog; browse site to get a sense of the Reading Eye Dog’s purpose and its status as technotext.

Recommended Readings:
Lev Manovich, excerpt from The Language of New Media.

Readings Due:
George Herbert, “The Altar” and “Easter Wings”
William Blake, “Introduction” (Songs of Experience) and “The Tyger”
Stephen Mallarmé, "One Toss of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance"
Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602, Peter Sanderson’s Introduction and Parts 1 & 2.
W.J.T. Mitchell, excerpt from Picture Theory (p 89-107)
Scott McCloud, excerpt from Understanding Comics (Ch 6 p 138 – 161)

Readings Due:
Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602, Parts 3 – 8, Afterword, browse Script and Sketches
Scott McCloud, Excerpts from Understanding Comics.

Readings Due:
William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper”
Christina Rosetti, “Cousin Kate”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus's Oxford
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Mid-day”
Wallace Stevens, “Of Modern Poetry” and “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock”
William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say”
e.e. cummings, “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”
Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Preface and Sections 1 – 5)

Recommended Readings:
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Sections 6 – 15 and Epilogue)

Readings Due:
Peter Howard, "A Poppy"; Also read the plain text version.
Dan Waber, "Strings"
Komninos Zervos, "Invention (CyberPoetry)"
Ana Maria Uribe, Select 2 - 3 Anipoemas at Vispo.com
Bob Grumman, “MNMLST Poetry

Readings Due:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Editor’s Preface, Author’s Preface and Vol I of Frankenstein (p vii – 59).
Read your paper workshop partner's paper prior to coming to class.

Recommended Readings:
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve” in Frankenstein (p 225 – 241).
Barbara Johnson “My Monster/My Self” in Frankenstein (p 241 – 251).

Readings Due:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol II (p 59 – 102).

Readings Due:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume III (p 103 – 157).
Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto”
Familiarize yourself with the layout and workings of Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (available in the Transcriptions Studio).

Readings Due:
Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl. Available in the Transcriptions Studio.
Espen Aarseth, excerpt from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Ch 4 p 76 – 97).


Recommended Readings:
Alan Sondheim and Stelarc "On Stelarc".
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, Ch 7 (p 100 – 108).

Readings Due:
Judy Malloy, l0ve 0ne.
Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message.”

Readings Due:
Geoff Ryman, 253.
Bill Nichols, “The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems.”

Readings Due:
William Gibson, Neuromancer, parts 1- 2.
N. Katherine Hayles, “The Seduction of Cyberspace.”

Readings Due:
William Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 3 and Coda.
Michael Heim, “The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace.”


Recommended Readings:
Julian Dibbell, “A Rape In Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society.”

Readings Due:
Lisa Nakamura, “Race In/For Cyberspace.”
Cameron Bailey “Virtual Skin.”

Readings Due:
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of the Forking Paths.”
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), “The Girl Who Was Plugged In.”
Larissa Lai, “Rachel.”

Recommended Readings:
Charles Saunders, “Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction.”

Readings Due:
Nick Montfort, “Winchester's Nightmare.”
Linden Labs, Second Life (register for a free basic account and spend a couple of hours playing).
James Paul Gee, “Why Game Studies Now?


Recommended Readings:
Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture.”
David J. Leonard, “Not a Hater, Just Keepin It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies”
Celia Pearce, “Productive Play: Game Culture from the Bottom Up”
Joost Raessens, “Playful Identities, or the Ludification of Culture”