schedule

	Introduction
8/29	Meet and greet, course overview, logistics, blogging
	Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis – “Beyond Locative Media” (Leonardo, 2006)

	The Metropolis and the Modern Subject
8/31	Screening: The Man With the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov (1929)
9/5	Walter Benjamin – “Paris, Capital of the 19th Century”, The Arcades Project, (Harvard University Press, 1999) Georg Simmel – “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, Simmel on Culture, (Sage, 1997) Recommended: Andre Breton – Nadja (Grove, 1960)

	Social Space and the Public Sphere
9/7	Screening: Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord (1973)
9/12	Jürgen Habermas – The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, p. 1-26 (MIT, 1989) Henri Lefebvre – The Production of Space, p. 69-99 (Blackwell, 1991) Recommended: Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle, (Zone, 1995)

	Cognitive Mapping and Psychogeography
9/14	Screening: Play Time, Jacques Tati (1967)
9/19	No Class (Dali Lama)
9/21	Kevin Lynch – “The City Image and its Elements”, Ch. 3 in The Image of the City, (MIT, 1960) Guy Debord – “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography”, Situationist International Anthology, (Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981) Frederic Jameson – Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, pp 45-54, (Duke University Press, 1991)

	Mobile Observers
9/26	Screening: Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer (1998)
9/28	Walter Benjamin – “The Flaneur”, The Arcades Project, (Harvard University Press, 1999) Guy Debord – “Theory of the Derive”, Situationist International Anthology, (Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981) Michel de Certeau – “Walking in the City”, Ch. 7 in The Practice of Everyday Life, (University of California, 1984)

10/3	Student Presentations

	From Disciplinary to Control Societies
10/5	Screening: Minority Report, Steven Spielberg (2002)
10/10 10/12	Michel Foucault – “Panopticism”, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, (Vintage, 1979) Gilles Deleuze – “Postscript on Societies of Control”, October 59, (MIT, 1992) Mike Davis – “Fortress LA”, Ch. 4 in City of Quartz, (Vintage, 1992) Alex Galloway – “Physical Media”, Ch. 1 in Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, (MIT, 2004)

	Site Specificity and Urban Intervention
10/17	Robert Smithson – “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey”, Robert Smithson: Collected Writings, (University of California, 1996) Miwon Kwon – “Genealogy of Site Specificity”, Ch. 1 in One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, (MIT 2002) Timothy Nye – “Conceptual Art: A Spatial Perspective”, The Power of the City: The City of Power, (Whitney Museum, 1992) Christel Hollevoet – “Wandering in the City”, The Power of the City: The City of Power, (Whitney Museum, 1992)

	Network Cities
10/19	Screening: Chunking Express, Wong Kar-Wei (1996)
10/24	Saskia Sassen – “Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization”, Ch. 2 in Global Cities, (Princeton, 1991) Manuel Castells – “Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age”, Cybercities Reader, (Routledge, 2004) Andreas Broeckmann – “Public Spheres and Network Interfaces”, Cybercities Reader, (Routledge, 2004)

	Technology, Mediation and Urban Life
10/26	Michael Bull – “Technology and the Management of Everyday Life”, Ch. 11 in Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life, (Berg, 2000) Daisuke Okabe and Mizuko Ito – "Keitai in Public Transportation", in Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life, Mizuko Ito et. al, ed. (MIT, 2005) Timo Kopomaa – “Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City”, Cybercities Reader, (Routledge, 2004)

10/31	Student Presentations

	Ubiquitous Computing and the City
11/2	Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown – The Coming Age of Calm Technology Anne Galloway – Resonances and Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City

	Locative Infrastructures
11/14	William Mitchell – “Electronic Mnemotechnics”, Ch. 7 in Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, (MIT, 2003) Jordan Crandall – “Operational Media”, ctheory.net

	Guest Lecture: Shawn Micallef
11/16	Murmur Project, Toronto

	Participatory Networks
11/21	Geert Lovink – “The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam”, Cybercities Reader, (Routledge, 2004) Ross Mayfield – “Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics”, Ch. 10 in Extreme Democracy Howard Rheingold – “Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many”, Ch. 7 in Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Basic Books, 2002)

11/23	No Class (Thanksgiving)

	Pervasive Gaming
11/28	Chalmers, et. al, – Gaming on the Edge: Using Seams in Pervasive Games, 2005 Pervasive Computing Conference. Walther Bo Kampmann – Atomic Actions – Molecular Experience: Theory of Pervasive Gaming Steve Benford et. al. – The Design And Experience Of The Location-Based Performance Uncle Roy All Around You


	Guest Lecture: Erwin Redl
11/30	www.paramedia.net

12/4, 12/6	No Class (Final Reviews)
12/13	Student Presentations

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