Foundations of American Cyberculture F2006 BERKELEY (28 AUDIOS)

BERKELEY Art 23   (Fall 2006) Instructor: Greg Niemeyer Level Undergraduate Course Home (Click Here)

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Course Description

This new course will enable students to think critically about, and engage in practical experiments in, the complex interactions between new media and perceptions and performances of embodiment, agency, citizenship, collective action, individual identity, time and spatiality. We will pay particular attention to the categories of personhood that make up the UC Berkeley American Cultures rubric (race and ethnicity), as well as to gender, nation, and disability. The argument threading through the course will be the ways in which new media both reinforce pre-existing social hierarchies, and yet offer possibilities for the transcendence of those very categories. The new media -- and we will leave the precise definition of the new media as something to be argued about over the course of the semester -- can be yet another means for dividing and disenfranchising, and can be the conduit of violence and transnational dominance.

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Course Audio Lectures

				Mon 8/28	The Cybercultural Imaginary: From Login to Disembodiment 1
				Wed 8/30	The Cybercultural Imaginary: From Login to Disembodiment 2
				Mon 9/4	Art 23: Lecture 3- Holiday
				Wed 9/6	A History of Computation, Control, and Communication
				Mon 9/11	The Turing Test: Persona Non Grata 1
				Wed 9/13	The Turing Test: Persona Non Grata 2
				Mon 9/18	The Distributed Network 1
				Wed 9/20	The Distributed Network 2
				Mon 9/25	Cyberpunk Counterculture 1
				Wed 9/27	Cyberpunk Counterculture 2
				Mon 10/2	Website as a Performance Space: Technical Protocols 1
				Wed 10/4	Website as a Performance Space: Emotional Protocols
				Mon 10/9	Passing, Performance, Trying On: Race, Gender, Sexuality
				Wed 10/11	Attraction, Distraction: From Reflection to Substitution of Reality
				Mon 10/16	Cybersociality: Community Building; Political Organizing; Hate Groups and the Power Law
				Wed 10/18	Art 23: Lecture 16 (podcast not available)
				Mon 10/23	Art 23: Lecture 17
				Wed 10/25	Art 23: Lecture 18
				Mon 10/30	Art 23: Lecture 19
				Wed 11/1	Art 23: Lecture 20
				Mon 11/6	Art 23: Lecture 21
				Wed 11/8	Art 23: Lecture 22
				Mon 11/13	Art 23: Lecture 23
				Wed 11/15	Art 23: Lecture 24
				Mon 11/20	Art 23: Lecture 25
				Wed 11/22	Art 23: Lecture 26
				Mon 11/27	Art 23: Lecture 27
				Wed 11/29	Art 23: Lecture 28
				Mon 12/4	Art 23: Lecture 29
				Wed 12/6	Art 23: Lecture 30