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01.14.05

Spring Reading List

Assigned texts for the semester, since some of you are interested in that sort of thing:

Rhetoric, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, taught by John Logie here at UMN
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern (Sean Burke)
Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age (Adam Thierer)
Copy Rights and Copy Wrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
Digital Copyright (Jessia Litman)
Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig)

Networked Rhetorics, taught by Collin Brooke at Syracuse, complete with course blog. The full reading schedule is here.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, Bernardo A. Huberman
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Mark C. Taylor)
Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices, (Porter and Sullivan)
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Duncan J. Watts)
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified THeory of the Web (David Weinberger)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)

Ancillary:
Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment (William Fisher III)
Remediation: Understanding New Media (Jay David Bolter)
We the Media (Dan Gillmor)

Comments

Heh heh heh. I feel eddicated, having read about half of these without any class to prod me to do so. :)

Forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press:

Jody Greene, The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730

I had the same sensation, Dorothea. I'd been feeling like I haven't been reading enough, so it was heartening to see these.

George - Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for it.