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The Culture of Information
ENGL 25 - Winter 2002,  Alan Liu

For convenience of reference, the following is a visible list of URLs for online readings in the course. (Online readings are clickable on the Schedule page but are not cited by explicit URL.) The full list of course readings, including also print and CD-ROM materials may be found on the Schedule page of the course site.


URLs for Required Online Readings
 

Claude E. Shannon, "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948), pp. 3-6
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/ shannon/mathematical-theory.html

Richard T. Griffiths, "From ARPANET to World Wide Web"
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm

William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (1798)
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html

Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)http://www.design.ru/olialia/war/

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/

Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
http://www.apc.org/english/

NCSA "Beginner's Guide to HTML," Part I
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerP1.html

William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (1992)
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/gibson/agrippa.html

Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928)
(sample images, course password required)
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/locked/tschichold/index.html

David Carson's graphic design work (1980s-90s)
(sample images, course password required)
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/locked/david-carson/index.html

April Greiman's graphic design work (1980s-90s)
(sample images, course password required)
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/locked/greiman/index.html

Examples of cutting-edge Web design: explore some of the "styles" of Web design categorized by Curt Cloninger on the site associated with his book, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground
http://www.lab404.com/dan/index.html

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), pp. 82-84
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/unlocked/ schumpeter/index.html

John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996)
http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

Jon Katz, "Birth of a Digital Nation," Wired Magazine (April 1997) (article in sequence of eight web pages)
http://www.wired.com/wired/5.04/netizen.html

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology" (1996). Full Length Mix version
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/HRC/ci/calif5.html

Joseph Nechvatal, Home Page
http://www.nechvatal.net/

"Jodi" (Joan Hermskerk and Dirk Paesmans, Home Page
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/usherf.html

Kostya Mitenev, Undina
http://www.digbody.spb.ru/undina/!undina.htm

Victoria Vesna, Bodies© INCorporated
http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/

Ed Falco, Self Portrait as Child with Father (1999)
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiareview/tirweb/hypermedia/edward_falco/webpages/selfportrait.html

URLs for Recommended Online Readings
 

Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/wilwilf.htm

LambdaMOO (go in a telnet client to lambda.moo.mud.org, port 8888 or go in a Web browser to telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888/)

Cyan's Official Home Page for Myst and Riven
http://www.riven.com/home.html

Riven Unofficial Home Page (Jim Stephenson)
http://members.aol.com/mystsequel/

Jim Stephenson, "World Builder: A Conversation with Robyn Miller"
http://members.aol.com/jamesstep2/robyn/robyn1.html

"Don't Cheat at Riven: The Riven Hint Site" (Decent Designs, Inc.)
http://www.decentdesigns.com/riven/


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