Hypertext: Reading and Writing Online

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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Online and Reserve Room Readings

Espen J. Aarseth	"Ergodic Literature"
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin	"The Double Logic of Remediation" (Reserve Room - Central Library)
Jorge Luis Borges	"The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of the Forking Paths"
Rodney Brooks	Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (2002) - (Reserve Room - Central Library)
Philip K. Dick	"Paycheck"
Ed Falco	"Charmin' Cleary"
Terri Ford and Erik Lover	"Story Problem"
Felix Jung	Four Poems
Robert Kendall and Michele D'Auria	"Candles for a Street Corner"
Brian Kerr	"Part of the Old Brick Chimney"
Lawrence Lessig	"Four Puzzles from Cyberspace," from Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), pp. 9-19 (Reserve Room - Central Library)
	"Piracy," from Free Culture, pp. 17-79 (Reserve Room - Central Library)
Judy Malloy	"Afterwards"
John McCarthy	"What Is Artificial Intelligence?," Pt. 1 - Basic Questions
Maureen McHugh	"Virtual Love" (Reserve Room - Central Library)
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab	Cog, The Humanoid Robot and Kismet, The Sociable Robot (three-minute films)
Walter Mosley	"Dr. Kismet" (Reserve Room - Central Library)
Bruce Sterling	Hacker's Crackdown, Pts. 2-3
Alan Turing	"Computing Machines and Intelligence"

Films

Students should watch the following films, which will be discussed during the course of the semester.

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), directed by Steven Spielberg	The Matrix, (1999), directed by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan

Additional films about the Net, Cyborgs, and Virtual Reality:

• Alien (1979), Ridley Scott (dir.)
• Aliens (1986), James Cameron (dir.)
• Alien III (1992), David Fincher (dir.)
• Alien: Resurrection (1997),  Jean-Pierre Jeunet (dir.)
• Blade Runner (1982; Director's Cut, 1992), Ridley Scott (Dir.)
• Disclosure (1994), Barry Levinson (dir.)
• Gattaca (1997), Andrew Niccol (dir.)
• Hackers (1995), Iain Softley (dir.)
• Hardware (1989), Richard Stanley (dir.)
• I, Robot (2004), Alex Proyas (dir.); suggested by a book by Isaac Asimov
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Robert Longo (dir.); based on a story by William Gibson.
• The Lawnmower Man (1992), Brett Leonard (dir.); based on a story by Stephen King.
• Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996), Farhad Mann (dir.)
• The Net (1995), Irwin Winkler (Dir.)
• RoboCop (1987), Paul Verhoeven (dir.)
• Sneakers (1992), Phil Alden Robinson (dir.)
• Strange Days (1995), Kathryn Bigelow (dir.); based on a story by James Cameron
• The Terminator (1984), James Cameron (dir.)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), James Cameron (dir.)
• THX 1138 (1970), George Lucas (dir.); Lucas's first feature film
• Total Recall (1990), Paul Verhoeven (dir.); based on a story by Philip K. Dick
• TRON (1982), Steven Lisberger (dir.)
• Videodrome (1983), David Cronenberg (dir.)
• Virtuosity (1995), Brett Leonard (dir.)
• War Games (1970), Hy Averback (dir.)