Week Seven - Cyborgs + Silicon Valley
Class Materials:
Driscoll, K. (2022). The modem world: A prehistory of social media. Yale University Press. (Ch. 4+5)
Mullaney, T. S. (2024). The Chinese computer: A global history of the Information Age. MIT Press. (Ch. 5)
Haraway, D. (2010). A cyborg manifesto (1985). Cultural theory: An anthology, 454.
RFC “The Helminthiasis of the Internet”
Halt + Catch Fire S1
Ursula Franklin’s The Real World of Technology lectures (1989)
Toxic Trouble in Silicon Valley. Newsweek. (1984)
Burrington, I. (2016) Light industry: Toxic waste and pastoral capitalism. E-flux.
Finn, M., & DuPont, Q. (2020). From closed world discourse to digital utopianism: the changing face of responsible computing at Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1981–1992). Internet Histories, 4(1), 6-31.
Levy, S. (1984) A spreadsheet way of knowledge. Wired.
Kelty, C. M. (2020). Two bits: The cultural significance of free software. Duke University Press.
Turner, F. (2010). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. University of Chicago Press. (Ch. 4+5)
Tepper, M. (2013). Usenet communities and the cultural politics of information. In Internet culture (pp. 39-54). Routledge.
Starosielski, N. (2021). The politics of cable supply from the British empire to Huawei marine. Assembly Codes, 190-206.
American Artist. Black Gooey Universe. (2021)
Information Management: A Proposal
The languages which almost became CSS
Mendoza, J. A. No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.
Chess, S. (2026). The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse. MIT Press.
Davis, E. (2015). TechGnosis: Myth, magic, and mysticism in the age of information. North Atlantic Books.
