"The machine is always social before it is technical."
From Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II (Columbia University Press, New York, 1987)70.
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This is the course blog for the Digital Cultures module on the IoCT Creative Technologies Masters'.
So What's This All About Then...
This module gives an introduction to key ideas in critical and cultural theory that affect creative technologies and the creative industries.
The syllabus includes Modernism and Postmodernism, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Feminism, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory, Anthropology, Rhizomes, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Noise and Communication, Escience and Esocial science and The Ethnography of Cyberspace.
The syllabus includes Modernism and Postmodernism, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Feminism, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory, Anthropology, Rhizomes, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Noise and Communication, Escience and Esocial science and The Ethnography of Cyberspace.
Suggested Readings
- Astrid Ensslin, Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions
- Aylish Wood, Digital Encounters
- David Ciccoricco, Reading Network Fiction
- Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
- George Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in a Global Era
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
- Hal Foster, Postmodern Culture
- Jean S. Mason, Ethnography in Cyberspace: Data Collection via Email and Instant Messaging
- John Lechte, Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- Luke Tredinnick, Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age
- Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (eds), Communities in Cyberspace
- Nalini Rajan, Digital Culture Unplugged: Probing the Native Cyborg's Multiple Locations
- Randall Packer and Ken Jordan, Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
- Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text
- Suzi Gablik, Has Modernism Failed?
- Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
- Thomas Vander Wall, Bottom-Up All the Way Down
- Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences
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