Student Projects

Amanda Mills - "The Crime of the Century: Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars"

Laura Patterson - "Talking Letters: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies"

Friday, September 19 -

• Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
• Visit the "General Publications" page of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and read:
• Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of HyperText"
• John Unsworth, "Electronic Scholarship or, Scholarly Publishing and the Public"
• Jerome McGann, "Radiant Textuality"
• Sven Birkerts, "The Fate of the Book"

Friday, October 3

• William Gibson, Neuromancer
• Recommended: Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer; Bruce Sterling, "Cyberpunk in the Nineties"
• Shannon McRae, "Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body"
• Visit Shannon McRae's Homepage
• Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace"
• Joshua Quittner, "Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers"
• Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone, "Violation and Virtuality"
• Visit Sandy Stone's Homepage

Friday, October 17

• Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (Reserve Room)
• Sandy Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto"
• Jean Baudrillard, "The Ecstasy of Communication" (Handout)
• Paris Is Burning (video)
• Judith Butler, "Gender Is Burning"

Friday, October 31

• Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (Hypertext - Eastgate)
• Michael Joyce, "Twelve Blue." Postmodern Culture 7:3 (May, 1997) - Hypertext available through Vanderbilt Central Library

English Department

Jay Clayton's Homepage

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