SCHEDULE

NECROMEDIA
ENGL 794
Winter 2012
Professor O'Gorman
NB: With the exception of the Becker book, all texts will be provided via UW-ACE.
DATE
READING

PRESENTERS
Wednesday,
January 4

Course Introduction
Film Screening: Flight From Death
> O'Gorman, "Angels in Digital Armor: Technoculture and Terror Management"

O'Gorman
Wednesday,
January 11

> Ernest Becker, From The Denial of Death
> Goldenberg, Pysczcinki et al, "I Am Not an Animal: Mortality Salience, Disgust, and the Denial of Human Creatureliness"
> Jane MacGonigal, from Reality is Broken
> Nicholas Carr, from The Shallows ("The Juggler's Brain")

Heidi Ebert

Lauren Burr
Wednesday,
January 18

WORKSHOP IN AUGMENTED REALITY, GEOLOCATION, BIOFEEDBACK, AND HIVE (Hub Interactive Virtual Environment, a 5-screen immersive cube)
Colin Ellard, Sean Doherty
Wednesday,
January 25
 > Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"
> Hubert L. Dreyfus, from On the Internet
Jonathan Doering
Dave Carruthers
Wednesday,
February 1

> N. Katherine Hayles, from How We Became Posthuman and "Hyper vs. Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes."
> Cary Wolfe, from What is Posthumanism?
Sarah Gibbons
Scott Kobewka
Wednesday,
February 8

> Bernard Stiegler, from Taking Care and Technics and Time
> Nicole Shukin, "Rendering's Modern Logics," from Animal Capital
> Giorgio Agamben, from The Open

Farah Yusuf
Rob Parker
Stephen Fernandez
Wednesday,
February 15

ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE
Introduction to Assignment 2
> John Durham Peters, from Speaking into the Air
> Geoffrey Sconce, from Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television




Kent Aardse

Wednesday,
February 22

 READING WEEK
Wednesday,
February 29

> Eugene Thacker, from Biomedia
> Jussi Parikka, from Insect Media
Nathan Hagenah
Morteza Dehghani
Tuesday, March 6
- Friday, March 9
 WORKSHOP: BUILDING THE "SPECULATION" GAME, WITH DUKE U VISITORS: KATE HAYLES, PATRICK JAGODA, PATRICK LEMIEUX
Wednesday,
March 15
> Timothy Campbell, from Improper Life
> Mark Sagoff, "Nature and Human Nature"
> Langdon Winner, "Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates"
ITERATION 1 OF FINAL GAME DUE

Natalee Blagden
James Saliba

Wednesday,
March 22
 STUDIO TIME FOR FINAL PROJECT
Wednesday,
March 29

FINAL PROJECT DUE

  

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