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SCHEDULE

Memory & Techne
ENGL 794
Fall 2013
Professor O'Gorman

DATE
READING

PRESENTERS
Thursday,
September 12

Intro. to course. Groups formed and blogs started.

 
Thursday,
September 29

Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence. Trans. J.I. Beare.
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria. Book XI, Chapter 2.
Guest Speakers: Lisa Loiselle and Jessica Luh from the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program

O'Gorman
Thursday,
September 26

Plato, Phaedrus. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Project Gutenberg.
Derrida, Jacques. “Plato’s Pharmacy.” Dissemination. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

Cameron Butt
Isaac Steele

Thursday,
October 3
 Genova, Lisa. Still Alice. Toronto: Simon and Schuster Canada, 2008.

Amna Haider
Kaitlyn Holbein
Thursday,
October 10

Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2009.
Van Dijck, José. Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2007.

Zach Junkin
Lauren Rabindranath

Thursday,
October 17

Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.

Marie-Agnes Pilon
Stephen Trothen

Thursday,
October 24

Spotlight on Digital Dementia. Readings TBD.

Graeme Northcote

Thursday,
October 31

 Gibson, William. “Johnny Mnemonic.” Burning Chrome. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Dick, Philip K. “Paycheck.” The Philip K. Dick Reader. New York: Citadel, 1997.

Greg Campbell
Thursday,
November 7

O’Gorman, Marcel. “Bernard Stiegler’s Pharmacy: A Conversation.” Configurations. Vol 18, Number 10, Fall, 2010, pp. 459-476.
Stiegler, Bernard. “Anamnesis and Hypomnesis: Plato as the First Thinker of the Proletarianisation.”
Wills, David. “The Dorsal Turn.” Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Anne Bui
Thursday
November 14
Munce, Alayna. When I Was Young & in My Prime. Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2005.
 Somaye Farmani
Thursday,
November 21
ITERATION 1 OF FINAL PROJECT DUE
 
Thursday,
November 28
STUDIO TIME FOR FINAL PROJECT  
Saturday,
November 30

FINAL PROJECT DUE - Symposium/Exhibition at CML

Final essay due Saturday, December 7 (before midnight)

  

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