Revision as of 03:16, 29 October 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)

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

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
- Posthumanisms

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 * Emphasize cyberpunk ... de Certeu?
 * Focus on Community -- have students read [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html Rheigolds, ''The Virtual Community'']
+= 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
+** Posthumanisms