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Cached Syllabus - In case the current one is down

Read these links over after today's class. For future classes I recommend reading the links before and after class.

"Learning the Alphabet"

"Da wiki is the medium is the message"

January

January 23

The context: an historical orientation to the control society, leading to a proliferation of information:

http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/king/mkl1a.pdf

With more attention attractors and lowered awareness:

http://digitalproposal.pbwiki.com/

And a desire to control: ( LSD, Aliens discussion)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Security_State

http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/tia/tia-original.htm

Mobius's Blog

Click on the above links and blog in response to it. If you can, improve the link. Make it bettah!

January 25

diverse and sundry blogs, including mobiused

TIA Reprise: Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare

The edge of the network as the space of necessary freedom - Lacuna Mutata

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=95556&WT.svl=column1_1

The Social Engineering FAQ - A Fake FAQ?

RfidFrenzy - Toward An Internet of Things?

skype phone

Training in commons formation: [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons The Creative Commons

January 30

(1) RFID discourses- tribe, sex offenders, immigrants. Could rfid tagging actually help sex offenders offend? Increased proliferation of information makes identity theft more rather than less likely. Likely: a mutation.

(2) Wiki in the society of control. Preemptive protection. Training in Commons Formation - attempt to control leads to the development of a proliferating discourse, whose only referent can be a commons - a gathering requiring only minimal understanding. The Minimal Conditions of understanding. Commons versus property

Creative Commons Choose a license for your work. You must share your compositions in some form with your classmates!

(3) Cyberspace, frontier of sovereignty.

history of free press (Ideological origins of the american revolution)

history of pirate radio.

The analogy with geography and its limits. finite versus infinite dimensionsont

The Turner Frontier Hypothesis

Begin

Department of Homeland Security, National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

Department of Homeland Security, National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

February

February 1

Call Me Ishamel -Presentation?

Weekend prompt: Choose a figure from the Freedom of Information Act FBI Reading Room and read through the file, then post.

http://foia.fbi.gov/alpha.htm

February 6

Clastres, Pierre. Society Against the State

Security Commons

February 8

Begin Discussion, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Discuss Freedom of Information Act files, vote for person to file FOIA papers on. My vote: Philip K. Dick

Lionshare - A useful tool for our collaborations?

Workshop on Freedom of Information Act

Intellectual Property ( the Shulgin analogy)

February 10, Friday

Out of class workshop to discuss, plan, and implement technologies of collaboration

Where: Irvings

Time: TBA (stay after class on Thursday or check this page)

February 13

The Quasi-Fictional Society of Control: Ubik

February 15

Ubik

half life and postvitality - [http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/moops"For instance, what does it really mean to teleport, to clone, to genetically engineer?"]

inertials and the outsourcing of mindfulness; mindfullness and the infrastructure of Jory

Aliens want to know your shopping preferences

Commerical Inertials and fake fakes - Dick's Koan's

February 20

Ubik

I am the brand name

February 22

Ubik

February 27

Ubik

March

March 1

Clastres, Pierre. Transgenic Involution - getting involuted

Biotelemetricon: Towards a Peer to Peer Privacy Planet?

March 6

Lessig, Free Culture

March 8

Lessig, Free Culture

March 13

Spring Break in the TAZ of your Choice

March 15

Spring Break in the TAZ of your Choice

April

Sometime in April

Cryptography workshop: Divisibility of the Integers, Greatest Common Divisor, Euclidean Algorithm, prime numbers, Congruence Classes Modulo n (an introduction to group theory), Euler's Theorem, Public Key Codes, P is not NP?, Matlab examples...and maybe chaotic encryption with one dimensional iterative maps (Denseness, Continuity, sequences and convergence, Intermediate Value Theorem, Mean Value Theorem, Fixed Points, attractors, recursive partitioning, Liapunov exponents)

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act

TAz are search engines for different degrees of freedom.

Discussion of Group Projects