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= Cybernetics = | |||
* Read something by Wiener, e.g. "Rigidity and Learning" in ''The Human Use of Human Beings''. | * Read something by Wiener, e.g. "Rigidity and Learning" in ''The Human Use of Human Beings''. | ||
* Pay much more attention to ''learning'' | |||
* Connect learning and evolution early on | |||
* Read only two essays by Bateson, on art and learning | * Read only two essays by Bateson, on art and learning | ||
* Read only Rapport 1971 | * Read only Rapport 1971 | ||
* For L-S 1955, read only the middle -- exclude the set up (requires knowledge of history of anth) and the Zuni stuff (way too complicated) | * For L-S 1955, read only the middle -- exclude the set up (requires knowledge of history of anth) and the Zuni stuff (way too complicated) | ||
= Postmodernity = | |||
* Put Lyotard before Suchman, et al. → the latter follow closely the sporit of his recommendations | |||
* Emphasize cyberpunk ... de Certeu? | |||
* Focus on Community -- have students read [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html Rheigolds, ''The Virtual Community''] | |||
* Read Salam Pax's book | |||
** Exploit reversal of Blog into Book | |||
* Focus on Lyotard's theory of games | |||
** Basis for study of blogging as an agonistic language game | |||
** Further basis for Manovich's take on games and the algorithm | |||
* Re-include Ricoeur's work on text and self ... | |||
= General Remarks = | |||
* Bateson's opposition between Purpose Mind and Greater Mind pervades the course | |||
* To what extent is Cybernetics the "backstory" of the computerized society? | |||
* One possible course -- The Anthropology of Google -- would eliminate Suchman, etc. | |||
* May want to divide the course into parts, integrate more activities | |||
** Cybernetic Anthropology | |||
** Computational Anthropology | |||
** Ethnography of Computing | |||
** Anthropology of Google (Cyberia) | |||
*** Virtual Community | |||
*** Hypertext | |||
*** Databasification | |||
** Posthumanism | |||
= Total New Approach = | |||
* BASE IT ENTIRELY ON ETHNOGRAPHY | |||
** Michael Wesch on YouTube, etc. | |||
** Doostdar on Blogging | |||
** Suchman | |||
** Forsythe | |||
* ALSO FOCUS ON METHODS | |||
** QDA | |||
** Visual Anthropology | |||
* STUDENTS KEEP BLOGS AND MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR YOUTUBE | |||
* FOCUS ON SELF and TEXT | |||
** Theory: Lyotard and Ricoeur | |||
Latest revision as of 16:21, 19 November 2007
Cybernetics
- Read something by Wiener, e.g. "Rigidity and Learning" in The Human Use of Human Beings.
- Pay much more attention to learning
- Connect learning and evolution early on
- Read only two essays by Bateson, on art and learning
- Read only Rapport 1971
- For L-S 1955, read only the middle -- exclude the set up (requires knowledge of history of anth) and the Zuni stuff (way too complicated)
Postmodernity
- Put Lyotard before Suchman, et al. → the latter follow closely the sporit of his recommendations
- Emphasize cyberpunk ... de Certeu?
- Focus on Community -- have students read Rheigolds, The Virtual Community
- Read Salam Pax's book
- Exploit reversal of Blog into Book
- Focus on Lyotard's theory of games
- Basis for study of blogging as an agonistic language game
- Further basis for Manovich's take on games and the algorithm
- Re-include Ricoeur's work on text and self ...
General Remarks
- Bateson's opposition between Purpose Mind and Greater Mind pervades the course
- To what extent is Cybernetics the "backstory" of the computerized society?
- One possible course -- The Anthropology of Google -- would eliminate Suchman, etc.
- May want to divide the course into parts, integrate more activities
- Cybernetic Anthropology
- Computational Anthropology
- Ethnography of Computing
- Anthropology of Google (Cyberia)
- Virtual Community
- Hypertext
- Databasification
- Posthumanism
Total New Approach
- BASE IT ENTIRELY ON ETHNOGRAPHY
- Michael Wesch on YouTube, etc.
- Doostdar on Blogging
- Suchman
- Forsythe
- ALSO FOCUS ON METHODS
- QDA
- Visual Anthropology
- STUDENTS KEEP BLOGS AND MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR YOUTUBE
- FOCUS ON SELF and TEXT
- Theory: Lyotard and Ricoeur
