Obermann Seminar Summer 2000

Schedule

Jump to fellow presentations June 26-29

Reading list for first half of the seminar:

1. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology" in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (Harper Torchbooks, 1977).
2. Hannah Arendt, "Instrumentality and Animal Laborans," in The Human Condition, 2^nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1958), pp. 144-153.
3. Roy Rosenzweig, "Review Essay: Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet," American Historical Review 103, no. 5 (December 1998): 1530-52.
4. Jonathan Crary, intro and chapter 1: Modernity and the Problem of Attention in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (MIT Press, 1999)
5. Barbara Stafford, "Figures of Reconciliation," pp. 57-95 (mostly illustrations, very short essay) in Visual Analogy: Consciousness As the Art of Connecting (MIT Press, 1999) + "Desperately Seeking Connections: Linking the Internet to Eighteenth-Century Laboratory Life," (pp.90-112 — also mostly illustrations)) in Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images (MIT Press, 1996).
6. N. Katherine Hayles, intro. & chapter 2 from How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
7. John Durham Peters, "The Finitude of the Human Voice," unpublished essay (1999).
8. Lewis Mumford, selections from Technics and Civilization (1934).