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 ...

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

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