Electronic Textuality and Cyberculture
Course Syllabus

August 27 - September 3
Richard Lanham. The Electronic Word: Technology, Democracy, and the Arts
The Electronic Labyrinth
Michael Joyce "Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts" from Of Two Minds
September 3 - September 10
George LandowHypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
Judy Malloy its name was Penelope
J.L.Borges' short story "The Garden of Forking Path"
Suggested Reading:
Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
Hyperizons: Theory and Technique of Hypertext Fiction
September 10 - September17
Paul Auster City of Glass
September 17 - September 24
Mireille Rosello "The Screener's Maps: 'Michel de Certeau's Wandersmanner and Paul Auster's Hypertextual Detective" in Hyper/Text/Theory
September 24 - October 1
Leslie Silko Ceremony
An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko Thomas Irmer
Law, Pluralism, and American Literature Janet Carey Eldred
October 1 - October 8
Richard Lanham. The Electronic Word: Technology, Democracy, and the Arts
October 8-October 15
Brenda Laurel. Computers as Theatre
Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory Marie-Laure Ryan

October15 - October 22
William Gibson Neuromancer
Cyberpunk Fiction
October 22 - October 29
Katherine Hayles "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers"
Cyberpunk--Film
October 29 - November 12
David Brande "The Business of Cyberpunk: Symbolic Economy and Ideology in William Gibson"
Michael Dawson and John Foster "Virtual Capitalism: The Political Economy of the Information Highway
The Political Economy Of Virtual Reality: Pan-Capitalism Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein
November 12 - November 19
Donna Haraway "A Cyborg Manifesto..."
Hyperlink to Donna Haraway
Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Allucquère Rosanne Stone
Border Crossing - Cyborgs
November 19 - November 26
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Metaworlds Robert Rossney
November 26 - December 3
Virtual Communities
Play and Performance in Computer Mediated Communication
December 3 - December 10
Sherry Turkle Life on the Screen
Postmodern Virtualities Mark Poster