Location: SH 2635

Readings Due: Blade Runner (Dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)

Recommended Readings: EveR-1 l (Korean robotics) | Zou Renti android twin | Hiroshi Ishiguro robot | Animatronic puppet | Albert Hubo

Readings Due: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Recommended Readings: "Can We Clone Humans?" (Newsweek; March 1997) | "Will There Ever Be Another You?" (Time; March 1997) | "Cloning Humans" (Time; November 1993)

Readings Due: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Recommended Readings: "More Babies Being Born to Be Donors of Tissue" (New York Times; June 1991) | "The Gift of Life" (Time; June 1991)

Readings Due: Caryl Churchill, A Number

Recommended Readings: Hans Moravec site

Readings Due: The Boys From Brazil (Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner; 1978)
Eduardo Kac, GFP Bunny

Recommended Readings: GFP | "Cross Hare: Hop and Glow" (Boston Globe; 2001) | OneTree Project | Human Skin Cultivation (Natalie Jermijenko & Heath Bunting; Biotech Hobbyist project) | Andrew Pollack and Andrew Martin, "F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe" (NY Times; December 2006)

Readings Due: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (1-58)

Recommended Readings: Jean Baudrillard brought to Second Life | Chris Ware animation | The Loud Family (PBS videos)

Readings Due: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (83, 92-115, 138-152)

Readings Due: Exploration of Second Life (create your avatar in advance); The Sims

Recommended Readings: CyberTwins | Virtual pets: Webkins, V-Migo | Warren Ellis, Reuters/Second Life column | Lecture in SL | CopyBot causes widespread protests | SL to open-source server code | A SL for Cumbria (BBC) | STA Travel in SL | Sweden to set up embassy in SL | S. Gregory Boyd, M.D. and Matthew E. Moersfelder, "Global Business in the Metaverse" | Virtual Worlds, Real Profits | Henry Jenkins, "How Second Life Impacts Our First Life..." | Second/Real Life video (Adam Bartholl)

Readings Due: The Yes Men; Reamweaver; Toywar; Nike Ground
Michel de Certeau, excerpts from The Practice of Everyday Life

Recommended Readings: Interview about Nikeground with Franco and Eva Mattes (01.org) | Nikeground video | gwbush.com | Genpets | "Dutch relieved but ruffled by kidney hoax" (BBC; June 1, 2007) | Adbusters | BBC Bhopal Report/Yes Men

Readings Due: Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence”
plagiarist.org | detritus.net
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (excerpts: scan the preface, introduction, overview of piracy chapter and afterword)

Recommended Readings: Open Source: The Ecstasy of Influence (February 2007) | Pynchon on McEwan | "Hip-Hop Outlaw" (NY Times; February 2007) | Malcolm Gladwell, "Something Borrowed" (New Yorker; November 2004)

Readings Due: Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”

Readings Due: Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (with reference to E.T.A. Hoffman, “The Sandman”)

Readings Due: Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”; Jorge Luis Borges, “El Otro”
Dead Ringers (Dir. David Cronenberg; 1988)

Recommended Readings: J.M. Coetzee & His Doubles (conference)

Readings Due: Vertigo (Dir. Hitchcock; 1958) + discussion of I Want a Famous Face

Readings Due: Christopher Priest, The Prestige

Readings Due: Christopher Priest, The Prestige

Readings Due: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Recommended Readings: Krister Friday, "A Generation of Men Without History": Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom" (2003)

Readings Due: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club