Required Texts (available at the bookstore)
– Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
– William Gibson’s Neuromancer
– Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
– Murakami Haruki’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
– Grant Morrison’s We3
– Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening
– Short stories and critical materials will be posted on OAK (under “Readings”).
– Access Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84 (full text)
Visual Media
(Reserved copies held at the library)
– Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (Mandatory Class Screening)
– Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell (Also available online through adultswim.com)
Readings to be posted on Blackboard
Excerpts from Roger Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind: “Turing Test,” “The Chinese Room”
Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” “Robot Dreams”
Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny,” and Masahiro Mori’s “The Uncanny Valley”
Excerpts from Lydia H Lie’s The Freudian Robot
Excerpts from Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation
Nick Bostrom’s “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation”
Excerpts from Katherine Hayles’s How We Became Posthuman (Chapter 1)
Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”