28 August / Intro: Architectures of Charlie Chaplin
4 September / Relativity & Technology
Sigfried Giedion, “Space-Time,” from Space, Time and Architecture
Sigfried Giedion, “Movement,” from Mechanization Takes Command
Albert Einstein, What is the Theory of Relativity?
11 September / Media
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message
Recommended:
Friedrich Kittler, The History of Communication Media
18 September / Consciousness
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Excerpts from The Railway Journey
Sanford Kwinter, The Complex and the Singular
25 September / Cybernetics, Adaptation and Feedback
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics in History
Gordon Pask, The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
Stafford Beer, The Disregarded Tools of Modern Man
2 October / Interactivity
JCR Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis
Myron Krueger, Responsive Environments
Nicholas Negroponte, Architecture Machine
9 October / Situations [+ First Paper Due]
Guy Debord, Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation
Lucy Suchman, Preface and Situated Actions, from Plans and Situated Actions
Malcolm McCullough, Embedded Gear and Situated Types, from Digital Ground
16 October / Lifecycles: Materials and Aging with Digital Technologies
Reyner Banham, A Throw-Away Aesthetic, from Design By Choice
Alvin Toffler, The Throw-Away Society and Taming Technology, from Future Shock
Keller Easterling, Excerpts from Subtraction
23 October / Technology, the Masses, and Mobs
Buckminster Fuller, Scientific Dwelling Service, from Nine Chains to the Moon
Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many, from Smart Mobs
30 October / Networks
Mark Wigley, Network Fever
Kazys Varnelis & Anne Friedberg, Place: The Networking of Public Space
6 November / Ubiquitous Computing
Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century
Anthony Dunne, The Electronic as Post-Optimal Object
William Mitchell, Recombinant Architecture
13 November / Dromology, Speed, Critical Space: Focus on Paul Virilio
1977: Unable Bodies, from Speed and Politics
1984: The Overexposed City, from The Lost Dimension
2012: Excerpts, from The Administration of Fear
Recommended:
Benjamin H. Bratton, Logistics of Habitable Circulation
20 November / Accelerate or Slowdown
Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #Accelerate Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
Stewart Brand, Is Technology Moving Too Fast?
Richard Sennett, excerpt from The Craftsman
Lars Hallnäs & Johan Redström, Slow Technology
27 November / No Class / Thanksgiving
4 December / No Class / Reading Days
11 December / No Class / Final Paper Due
