Culture on the Brink. Ideologies of Technology.

Texts :
CHAPTER I: Ideology of Technology :
1. Aronowitz: technology and the Future of Work ;
2. Schiller: Media, technology, and the Market: The Interacting
Dynamic ;
3. Woodward: From Virtual Cyborg to Biological Time Bombs:
Technocriticism
and the Material Body ;
4. Schirmacher: Homo Generator: Media and Postmodern technology ;
CHAPTER II: Technology and the Body: The Constitution of Identity :
5. Scarry: The Merging of Bodies and Artifacts in the Social
Contract ;
6. Marks: The Human Genome Project: A Challenge in Biological
technology ;
7. Lewontin: The Dream of the Human Genome ;
8. Treichler: AIDS, Identity, and the Politics of Gender ;
CHAPTER III: Information, Artificiality, and Science :
9. Chapman: Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Rescuing reality from
Virtual Reality ;
10. Morse: What Do Cyborg Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society ;
11. Winner: Three Paradoxes of the Information Age ;
CHAPTER IV: Technology, Art, and Cultural Transformation :
12. Klüver: Artists, Engineers, and Collaboration ;
13. Anderson: Stories from the Nerve Bible ;
14. Penny: Virtual Reality as the Completion of the Enlightenment
Project ;
15. Rose: Give Me a (Break) Beat! Sampling and repetition in Rap
Production ;
CHAPTER V: Technology and the New World Order :
16. Der Derian: Lenin's War, Baudrillard's Games ;
17. Ronell: Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps Beyond the
Pleasure Principle ;
18. Robins: The Haunted Screen ;
19. Levidow: The Gulf Massacre as Paranoid rationality ;
20. Ross: The New Smartness ;
Notes ;
Bibliography