March 5 and 7
Below is what we are scheduled to read for Wednesday and it seems like a lot, so let’s adjust our aims. I’ll put up a post that initiates blog comments for all of the reading below, and you must post something by Wednesday that we’ll use to advance our Liu conversation. You’ll finish up, say, by Sunday (officially not break yet) with a second post (at the very least), accounting for the rest of your reading. As you have been doing, please read each other’s postings and comment productively.
An additional subject for Wednesday will be the Other Assignment for 640: Course Design. I’ll be looking for a proposal after Spring Break—so we’ll talk about what these proposals will look like. Finally, we’ll talk a bit about the collective “new reading theory” project, which should emerge quite naturally from our post-Break readings.
Here’s the Liu assignment for this week again.
Part III. The Laws of Cool
Preface “What’s Cool”—read all. ereserves
Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8: Choose one: The Ethos of Information,
Information Is Style, The Feeling of Information, Cyber-politics and Bad
Attitude. Read till you understand something and can talk about it. Library
Part IV Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge Work
Preface “More”—read all. Ereserves
Chapter 11 Destructive Creativity: The Arts in the
Information Age. Read till you have an example well in mind and hand on what
“destructive creativity” means. Ereserves
in two parts.
Chapter 12 Speaking of History: Toward an