'SELF-DIRECTED' NOTES'

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INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE/WIFI
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Overview notes / Based on "The Enchantments of Infrastructure - Penny Harvey", "The ethnography of infrastructure - Susan Leigh Star", "The Internet as Infrastructure - Christian Sandvig" and "The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure - Brian Larkin".
Vibrant Matter - The Force of Things - Jane Bennet


INFORMATION AND CONTEXT
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Death of an Author - Roland Barthes


RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANS
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The Second Self - Sherry Turkle

NEXT: "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age", "A Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway", "The Patternist, Mind of My Mind - Octavia Butler", "Techniques of the Observer - Jonathan Crary"


WHAT IS DIGITAL INFORMATION
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Overview 'Digital' notes /Based upon class information
Database as a Symbolic Form - Lev Manovich
Overview 'How the machine works' notes /Including class and wikipedia
The Cybernetic Brain - Andrew Pickering

NEXT: "Networks Without a Cause by Geert Lovink"


THE IDEA OF PRIVACY
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Life on the Screen - Sherry Turkle
The Work of Being Watched - Mark Andrejevic
Notes Surveillance /Based on class and other random sources

NEXT: "How to Dissapear from BIG BROTHER - Frank M. Ahearn"


PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
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Bastard Culture
Digital Material
Tegenlicht Documentary episodes (various)