http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html
and the handout:
"Ectoplasm: Photography in the Digital Age" by Geoffrey Batchen from the book Overexposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography, ed. Carol Squiers.
questions to answer click here.
wednesday 1/31:
We are watching the documentary No Maps For These Territories, which features cyberpunk writer William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace".
monday 2/2
We are watching Alien, (Ridley Scott, 1980). It is all about space and abjection, about the rupturing of boundaries.
questions to answer click here.
Postmodern Geographies article.
monday 2/9
Alien excerpt handedout from Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identities.
wednesday 3/23 questionResponsesDue
"Memory" packet that was given out before break..
monday 4/11
We are watching Bladerunner, (Ridley Scott, 1983).
Handout: "Image is Everything: Lacan's Mirror Stage and Bladerunner", by Victor Gischler. Plus reading on Jacques Lacan.