Readings

1. “Art as Technique” by Victor Shklovsky
2. “Medium is the Message” by Marshall McLuhan
3. “One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity” by Miwon Kwon
4. From “Relational Aesthetics” by Nicolas Bourriaud
5. “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” by Claire Bishop

Identity

1. David Hume, “Of Personal Identity” (from A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739)
2. Media Representation
3. Ethnicity in a Globalizing World: Borders, Boundaries, and Virtual Communities
4. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being:African American Critical Theory and Cyberculture by Kali Tal
5. Green Eggs and Ham – Dr Seus
6. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet – Lisa Nakamura
7. Aspects of the self– Shirley Turkle
8. Whom am we? – Shirley Turkle
9. Personal Home Pages andthe Construction of Identities on the Web – Daniel Chandler
10. Identity Production in a Networked Culture:Why Youth Heart MySpace – danah boyd

Place and Mapping

1. Invisible Cities (excerpts) – Italo Calvino
2. On Exactitude in Science – Jorge Louis Borges
3. Cybercities – Boyer, M. Christine
4. The theory of the derive – Guy Debord
5. The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord
6. The Recession of Simulacra – Jean Baudrillard
7. Theory of Surveillance: The PANOPTICON – Michel Foucault
8. Place: A Short Introduction (Short Introductions to Geography) – Tim Cresswell
9. Center for Land Use Interpretation
10. Mapping cyberspace (examples)

1. From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality – Slavoj Zizek
2. Principles of New Media – Lev Manovich
3. City of Bits: Space Place and the Infobahn – William J Mitchell
4. Ada – Sadie Plant