Weekly Assignments

Each week you will be asked to respond to texts/lectures/video/podcasts/etc on different topics and reflect on them and their relation to yourself, the internet or identity in general by answering a specific question in 250-350 words. These will be handed in physically and submitted via email every thursday. They will serve as a jumping of point for a short class discussion. These will be graded on a fail/pass structure.

1. Diagrams / Arakawa: The Mechanisms of Meaning

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

What is the relationship between diagrams and meaning?
What is the difference between diagrams for art and non art?
What is the relationship between diagrams, maps and networks?

2. Califronian Utopianism: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series) pt I

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

How is Ayn Rand's philosophy relevant today?
How was the internet shaped by Objectivism?
What is Californian Ideology

3. Internet Art: Hito Steyerl: In Defense of the Poor Image

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

How is materiality manifested in poor images?
What is the political value of the poor image?
What is the relationship of speed or velocity and digital images?

4. Collage / Rauschenberg: Rosalind Krauss: Rauschenberg and the Materialized Image

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

What is the importance of time in Rauschenberg's work?
How is Rauschenberg's work different form other collage work that came before it?
How is Rauschenberg's work related to the internet?

5. Cybernetics: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series) pt II

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

What was the cultural impact of cybenetics?
Do you think humans can be undestood through cybernetcs?
Is cybernetcs a usefull tool for discribing reality?

6. Foucault: Philosophize this! Podcast Michel Foucault pt1

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

What are the parallels between foulcauts view and Cybernetics?
Do you agree with foucault that your own life is shaped through these systems of control? Explain.
How does the Panopticon play out in our contemporary lives?

7. Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

How do you understand the dividual? Does this affect your relationship to yourself?
How does this text relate to Foucault's ideas on control?
Why is the example of surfing brought up?

8. Pierre Huyghe: Investigate the work of Pierre Huyghe

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to your findings

How is the work of Pierre Huyghe relational/systemic?
What is the realtionship between his work and the internet?
What is the role of time in his work?

9. Artificial Intelligence: Lyotard's Can thought go on without a body?

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

Do you agree with Lyotards position on gender?
Can thought go on without a body?
What do you think the role of suffering is withing the space of this argument?

10. Accelerationism: Xenofeminist manifesto

Select one or more of the following questions to answer as a response to the text

What is the relationship between accelerationism and gender?
Do you agree with the XF position on nature?
What is ment by "let 100 sexes bloom"? Do you agree?

11. Poetics: Nora N. Khan: Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence

Make something poetic

12.Hito Steyerl: The internet does not exist

Respond in whichever way you like