You will also have 4 “reading response days.” On these days, you will be asked to prepare a response to one reading out of a set found on the website. This response should be written, but you should be prepared to share questions and thoughts with the class, and lead the discussion on the article you have chosen.
Other texts, required for a given class day, will be found on the "daily breakdown" page.
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Readings for Response #1:
- Walter Benjamin - "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- "The Futurist Cinema"
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - "Theater, Circus, Variety"
- "The Virtual Condition" Readings for Response #2:
- Jean Baudrillard - "The Procession of Simulacra"
- Serge Daney - "Before and After the Image"
- Olu Oguibe - "Photography and the Substance of the Image" Readings for Response #3:
- Tara McPherson - "Reload: Lives, Mobility, and the Web"
- "Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality. and Electronic Cultural Production Readings for Response #4:
- Marcos Novak - "Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace"
- Ann-Sargent Wooster - "Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity"