Weeks 13 & 14, April 11-15 & April 18-22
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Weeks 11 & 12, March 28th-April 1st & April 4th-8th
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Week 10, March 21st-25th
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Cleanth Brooks, “The Wasteland: An Analysis”
Week 9, March 14th-18th
Jean Baudrillard, America
Alexis de Tocqueville, “The External Configuration of North America,” from Democracy in America
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Week 8, February 28th-March 4th
World of Warcraft
Scott Rettberg, “Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft” in Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader, eds. Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2008), 19-38.
Alexander Galloway, “Warcraft and Utopia,” CTheory.net (Feb. 2006).
Week 7, February 21st-25th
World of Warcraft
Week 6, February 14th-18th
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
Gilles Deleuze, “Whitman”
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “Rhizome”
Alexander Galloway, “Gamic Actions, Four Moments”
Week 5, February 7th-11th
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Week 4, January 24th-28th & Week 5, January 31st-February 4
Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Week 3, January 17th – 21st
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
WEEK 1, January 5th – 7th & Week 2, January 10th – 14th
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
Giles Deleuze, “Postscript for Control Societies”
The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999)
