Fulltext Articles

Log of our late MUD. This bears a very close look, in that in retrospect it is very revealing of how human even this machine interface can be. I myself found it to be a bonding experience, although the post MUD visit to an RL (Real Life) type bar, (perhaps contaminating the streams of the ether) helped me come to that conclusion.

I am compiling a few plaintext versions of print articles, some that appear in the course reader, that I hope will complement Selena's course page. I was able to pick them up from my out of state library source. This effort is of course not intended to take away from the Copy Shop, and is for class use only; but since students are by definition poor, and few of us spend our time going through the magazines in dentist's offices, :) I hope these will be of use. I'll try to keep this list updated as well as time allows, and as organized as I can - also by week. I will also be adding other items of interest from time to time, besides plaintext, and if anyone wants to add to this folder, see below.

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Week 1

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Week 2: What?

• Primary Readings

  1. Shapiro, Laura. A mall for the mind.(San Francisco, California's new main library facility). In Newsweek Oct 21 1996, v128, n17, p84(3).

• Further readings

  1. Plagens, Peter. Life in the virtual year.(1996). In Newsweek Dec 30 1996, v128, n27, p133(1).

• Updated WWW Links

  1. Tables of Contents for All Issues of Postmodern Culture
  2. Jones, The Book of Myst in the Late Age of Print
  3. hypertext :: renaissance :: hypertext before computers
  4. Heiko Idenson: Poetry should be made by all

• Related material (my collections)

  1. Steiner, George. The ephemeral genre and the end of literature. In New Perspectives Quarterly Fall 1996, v13, n4, p46(4).
  2. Thus spake Zarathustra "auf Englisch" (textfrom Vt.

• Related WWW Links

  1. History of Hypertext
  2. As We May Think

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  Week 3: Digital knowledge and the virtual classroom

• Primary Readings

  1. Turner, Richard. When rumors make news. In Newsweek Dec 30 1996, v128, n27, p72(1).

• Further readings

  1. Hafner, Katie. A fix for info overload: has surfing the Net become a full-time job; sit back and relax while new software does the legwork for you. In Newsweek Oct 21 1996, v128, n17, p49(1).
  2. Levy, Steven. The Internet crash scare: yes, the Net is overloaded and slow; but even a global gigalapse won't stop the revolution.(Column). In Newsweek Sept 16 1996, v128, n12, p96(1).

• Related material (my collections)

  1. Moulthrop, Stuart. Traveling in the breakdown lane: a principle of resistance for hypertext.(Media Matters: Technologies of Literary Production). In Mosaic (Winnipeg) Dec 1995, v28, n4, p55(23).
  2. Machan, Tim William. Chaucer's poetry, versioning, and hypertext. In Philological Quarterly Summer 1994, v73, n3, p299(18).
  3. Davis, Philip. Welcome to the World-Wide Web. In Computers in Libraries Jan 1995, v15, n1, p51(5).

• Related WWW Links

  1. The Kooks Museum
  2. A shortcut to Heaven's Gate too.

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  Week 4: Virtual subjectivities and Avatars

• Primary Readings

  1. Greenfield, Meg. Back to the future: the science and technology of the 21st century will be different, but we won't be.(Column). In Newsweek Jan 27 1997, v129, n4, p96(1).
  2. WIRED 4.01:Who Am We? - by Sherry Turkle

• Further readings

  1. WIRED 4.06: Real Facke
  2. Barbara Page- Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext - Postmodern Culture 6:2

• Related material (my collections)

  1. Fryxell, David A. Ready for the future: for nonfiction writers, 'the good news from cyberspace far outweighs the bad.'(nonfiction). In Writer's Digest July 1995, v75, n7, p50(2).

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  Week 5: Human Machine interfaces, and the question of artificial intelligence

• Primary Readings

  1. Sex and Death among the Cyborgs

• Further readings

  1. WIRED 4.04: The Human Macro-organism as Fungus
  2. WIRED 4.04: Bots Are Hot!
  3. WIRED 4 12: Thinking About Thinking

• Related material (my collections)

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  Week 6: Virtual communities and cyber cities

• Primary Readings

  1. Hafner, Katie. Look who's talking: yes, online chat rooms are mostly boring and bawdy. But get ready for the next step; 'virtual communities' where talk is anything but small. (includes a list of six services providing chatrooms)(Internet). In Newsweek Feb 17 1997, v129, n7, p70(3).
  2. Levy, Steven. Rise of the city sites. (World Wide Web sites based on geographical locations). In Newsweek Sept 30 1996, v128, n14, p86(3).

• Further readings

  1. Tanaka, Jennifer. Log on and shoot. (online action game networks). In Newsweek August 12 1996, v128, n7, p58(2).

• Related material (my collections)

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  Week 7: Virtual politics and forms of cyber resistance

• Primary Readings

  1. Fineman, Howard. Who needs Washington?(politics in the 21st century)(America 2000)(Brief Article). In Newsweek Jan 27 1997, v129, n4, p50(3).
  2. "One Man's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow (from the John Perry Barlow Library)
  3. "It's a Poor Workman Who Blames His Tools" by John Perry Barlow WIRED: Scenarios 1.01 (1996)
  4. John Perry Barlow "The Powers That Were" WIRED September 1996
  5. Jon Katz "Birth of a Digital Nation" WIRED April 1996
  6. Jean Hughes Roy "Way New Leftists" WIRED February 1996
  7. James Der Derian "Speed Pollution" WIRED May 1996
  8. Ben Venzke, "Information Warrior" WIRED August 1996

• Further readings

  1. Levy, Steven. The Senate's bomb scare.(Senate proposal to ban information on the making of explosive devices on the Internet). In Newsweek August 12 1996, v128, n7, p48(1).

• Related material (my collections)

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  Week 8: Virtual secrets, surveillance and cryptography

• Primary Readings

  1. Quinn, Jane Bryant. Http://www.jbq.ok.com: the Internet is safer for business than you think. Your password is the weakest link.(Column). In Newsweek Oct 14 1996, v128, n16, p71(1)
  2. Sheldon Teitelbaum: Privacy Is History - Get Over ItWIRED 4.02
  3. Levy, Steven. Scared bitless: the arcane world of cryptography used to be the exclusive realm of spies. Now its everybody's business - to the chagrin of the government. In Newsweek June 10 1996, v127, n24, p49(3).
  4. Levy, Steven. Trying to find the key: how do you keep a secret on the Internet? (use of cryptography to protect information in cyberspace)(Column). In Newsweek Oct 14 1996, v128, n16, p91(1).

• Further readings

  1. Roger van Bakel How Good People Helped Make a Bad Law WIRED February '96
  2. Steven Levy: Wisecrackers WIRED 4.03

• Related material (my collections)

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  Week 9:

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  Week10: Virtual socioeconomic class and cybereconomics

• Primary Readings

  1. David Golumbia: "Hypercapital" Postmdern Culture, 7/1, September 1996
  2. James Porto "The Future of Money" WIRED, October 1996, pp 142-43, 200-05.
  3. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, "The Buck Starts Here", WIRED, August, 1996, pp 133 -35, 194 - 97.
  4. "Copyright on the Web: What's Legal," U of O Computing News, 12/1 September - October 1996, pp 1 -10
  5. Pamela Samuelson, "The Copyright Grab", WIRED, January, 1996, pp 135-138, 188-91.

• Further readings

  1. Pamela Samuelson and John Browning: "Confab Clips Copyright Cartel" WIRED March '97 pp 135-38, 188-91
  2. Dave Barry. Lost in cyberspace.(excerpt from 'Dave Barry in Cyberspace'). In Newsweek Oct 14 1996, v128, n16, p85(3).

• Related material (my collections)

  1. Marino, Arthur J., Jr. Hypertext allays 'Chairman's Letter' panic. (use of hypertext in composing chairman's message for annual report). In Public Relations Quarterly Spring 1994, v39, n1, p17(4).
  2. Scott Bukatman, "Virtual textuality." (hypertext). In Artforum Jan 1994, v32, n5, p13(2).

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