Propaganda

Chomsky, “Public Relations”; “Early History of Propaganda,” in Chomsky, Media Control
Baudrillard,“Absolute Advertising, Ground Zero Advertising”

                                    
Recommended Reading
Bernays, Propaganda 
Levine et al., “The Perversity of Inanimate Objects”                                                         Baudrillard, “The Implosion of Meaning in the Media”
Jhally, “Advertising and the Edge of the Apocalypse”
McLuhan, “Laws of the Media”
Dwan, “Idle Talk”

Mon. Oct 3, Lightshows, Film, and Television

Zielinski, “Light andShadow — Consonance and Dissonance: Athanasius Kircher”  

Adorno, “Transparencies on Film” 

Adorno, “How to Look at Television”

      Rec: *Potts, “Adorno on The Donald”

Mander, Four Arguments for theElimination of Television 

Radio

Adorno, “A SocialCritique of Radio Music” 

Anders, “The World as Phantom and as Matrix”

Mowitt, “Facing the Radio” in: Radio: Essays in Bad Reception

          Rec: Lott, “Perfect is Dead”; Goodman, Sonic Warfare; Arnheim,  Radio; Voegelin, “Noise” in Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art; Adorno, Current of Music

On the Virtuality of the Digital

Jarzombek, “Onto-Formation” Ch 2 in Digital Stockholm Syndrome; Berry, “The  Computational Turn”

Rec: Carr, Glass Cage; 
Lane, “The Technological System of Objects”; 
Adorno, “The Curves of the Needle”

Thurs Sept 22 The Hallelujah Effect

        

Performing Desire and 'Recording Consciousness' on Facebook and YouTube 

Link: http://www.furious.com/perfect/kdlang.html

                        

Rec: Babich, The Hallelujah Effect

The Printed Word

Illich, “Reading Toward Wisdom,” Ch. 1 in In the Vineyard of the Text; Jarzombek, “Onto-Modeling,” Ch 4 in Digital Stockholm Syndrome

                                    
Rec: Hall, “The Future of the Book”; Wark, The Hacker Manifesto”; Kittler, “The World of the Symbolic”

The Seduction of the Book, Media Studies, and the Digital Realm

Postman, “The Judgment of Thamus”;  Jarzombek, “Being-Global,” Ch 1 in: Digital Stockholm Syndrome

 
Rec: Kittler, “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter”