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English 473

Office Hours: Thursday, 3:15-4:15, Center for the Study of Altered Consciousness, 501 Carpenter & Friday, 11-1, Center for Sustainability (Porter Road)

Metaprogramming the Society of Control: Rhetoric and Contemporary Security Interfaces

This course will focus student attention on the tools, practices and assumptions of the contemporary security state as it seeks to govern the constantly proliferating information commons in the Wars on Terror(isms) and Drugs. Students will collaboratively investigate and creatively alter discourses of filesharing, hacking, biometrics and identification, data mining, surveillence and Temporary Autonomous Zones. As a course in rhetoric (the science of attention), the seminar will offer theories and practices for navigating and altering contemporary rhetorical ecologies featuring internet telephony, rfid systems and multimedia technical composition in the open source commons and its constantly differentiating subcultures. Participants will help compose global open source standards for emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and biotelemetrics.

Course Requirements

As practice in the inhabitation of temporary autonomous zones, students will compose for wiki three times per week, working with texts, images and sound. Students will compose a collaborative as well as individual final project analogous to a 15-20 page research paper.

TemporarilyAutonomousSyllabus

Cached Syllabus - In case the current one is down

Blog Pile - Student Blogs are created here, where they are banged upon, composed. dreamed, intertwingled three times weekly.

Texts:

A Primer on the History of Programming Languages

Draft of New GPL License

2600 The Hacker Quarterly

The Cryptoanarchist Manifesto

Bey, Hakim Temporary Autonomous Zones and Ontological Anarchy

Clastres, Pierre. Society Against the State

Dick, Philip K. Ubik

Doyle, Richard. The Transgenic Involution