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The Self

Posted in March 28th, 2009

Up next Foucault and Nakamura. Leave your comments/thoughts below.

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Here Comes Everybody

Posted in March 13th, 2009

After spring break we will be talking about Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Read the entire book as we will talk about the whole thing. (Don’t worry its a good read.)
Second, on that Thursday the proposal for your final project is due. This should be one page and outline what you want to write about [...]

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The Public Sphere

Posted in March 6th, 2009

This Thursday’s readings will cover the concept of the “public sphere.” Read both Habermas’s “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Entry” and Mark Poster’s “Cyberdemocracy.” Leave your thoughts/comments below. Your midterms will be due at the beginning of class.

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What This Class is About

"the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable content . . . .The archivization produces as much as it records the event." -Derrida, Archive Fever