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10/19/2005 Archived Entry: "7020"

7020 Winter 2006
With a little push from Cindy, I am noting tentative description and course readings for next semester's 7020: Theories of the Digital. The description is still rough and readings can just as likely change or be reduced (or added to - particularly the last section) in number.

Theories of the Digital

This course poses the idea that there are theories (as opposed to a theory) of digital culture and production. Theories which deal with technology, new media, rhetoric, and writing often conflict as well as compliment each other. The semester will be spent investigating some prominent and influential ideas regarding the digital. Some of these ideas will explicitly address new media through recognition of the apparatus which shapes the digital. Others will more implicitly address the issues at stake as we struggle to understand how, as Marshall McLuhan notes, media work us over completely. Our purpose will be to appropriate from these ideas in order to construct a methodology, practice, or additional position on new media and digital culture.

Possible readings by course section:

The Structure of New Media
Understanding Media
The Postmodern Condition
Remediation

Collected Voices on New Media
Eloquent Images
Digital Media Revisited

The Web and TV
Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Everything Bad is Good for You

The Language of New Media
The Language of New Media
Writing Machines

The Practices of New Media
Media ecologies : Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
Teletheory