Readings – Electronic Art + Design

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Note: In order to keep this list of online readings in technoculture from bloating out, it is designed to be highly selective rather than exhaustive. This site is for educational use only.

General Readings

John Perry Barlow: “Selling Wine Without Bottles” 1992-1993 (plaintext version)
Alex Blumberg: “It’s Good to Be King”
Vannevar Bush: “As We May Think”
Marlena Corcoran, “Worst Case Scenarios”
Jullian Dibbell: “A Rape in Cyberspace”
Philip K. Dick: “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”
James Gleick–assorted writings
Donna Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto”
Lewis Hyde: “The First Lie”
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Michael Joyce: “Nonce Upon Some Time: Rereading Hypertext Fiction”
Tom Junod: “The Falling Man”
Eduardo Kac, “Transgenic Art”
Antoinette LaFarge: “A World Exhilirating and Wrong”
A. LaFarge: “WinSide Out: The Convergence of Computers, Games, and Art”
A. LaFarge: “25 Propositions on Net Art”
A. LaFarge + Robert Allen: “Media Commedia” [PDF]
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Alexis Madrigal, “The Stereoscope and the Stereograph, Part 1: The Negative”
also: Part II, Part III and Part IV
Lev Manovich: “Principles of New Media (1)”
Robert C. Morgan: “The End of the Art World”
William J. Mitchell: “Intention and Artifice”
Robert Nideffer: “SHIFT-CTRL: Mediating the Process of Academic Exhibitionism”
Simon Penny: “Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative: The Artist in Dataspace”
Eric S. Raymond: “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
Rob Riddell: “DOOM Goes To War”
Sherry Turkle: “What Are We Thinking When We Are Thinking About Computers?”
Grahame Weinbren: “Digital Revolution Is a Revolution of Random Access”

Cyberculture Sites