Alexander R. Galloway is assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Galloway previously worked for six years at Rhizome.org. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG, and maker of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. He teaches Introduction to New Media (syllabus) at NYU.
This course is an introduction to digital media, focusing on networks, computers, the Web, and video games. Theoretical topics include the formal qualities of new media, their political dimensions, as well as questions of genre, narrative, and history.
Readings:
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Norbert Wiener, Men, Machines, and the World About
Janet Murray, From Additive to Expressive Form
Lev Manovich, What is New Media?
Espen Aarseth, Nonlinearity and Literary Theory
Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas
Albert-László Barabási, Linked
Roger Caillois, The Definition of Play" and "The Classification of Games
Mark Wolf, The Medium of the Video Game
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Constituents of a Theory of the Media
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Philip Agre, Surveillance and Capture
Lisa Nakamura, Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen Online
Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on Control Societies
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, The Advent of Netwar
