'SELF-DIRECTED' NOTES'

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

NEXT: "The Second Self - Sherry Turkle", and " 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

NEXT: "Networks Without a Cause by Geert Lovink" and " The Cybernetic Brain by Andrew Pickering"

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

PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
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Bastard Culture

Digital Material

Tegenlicht Documentary episodes (various)