library
there’s a lot of good stuff that we don’t have time to touch on, but has influenced this course in some way and, given infinite time, would feel like an exciting inclusion in the reading list. None of these are compulsory, though reading them will definitely make you think in new and interesting ways about the web.
computers
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
interfaces
Critical Interface Toolbox
net art
JODI JODI.org
Olia Lialina, my boyfriend came back from the war
rhizome net art anthology
Alex Galloway, Jodi’s Infrastructure
internet history and the vernacular web
Olia Lialina, Prof. Dr. Style
Toph Tucker and Jasmine Lee Restaurant Websites
making websites
Laurel Schwulst, my website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge, what could yours be?
Paul Ford, i had a couple of drinks and woke up with 1000 nerds
the internet
Benjamin Bratton, The Black Stack
Everest Pipkin, It was raining in the data center
Julian Oliver, Stealth Infrastructure
writing code
Marvin Minsky, Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily-formulated ideas
cybernetics
Jack Burnham, Software
Nicholas Negroponte, soft architecture machines
Dan Taeyoung, conversation is a cybernetic technology
Felicity Scott, Discourse, Seek, Interact: Urban Systems at MIT
Keller Easterling, An Internet of Things
simulation
Ava Kofman, les simerables
Nicky Case, how to simulate the universe in 134 easy steps
Bret Victor, explorable explanations
Emily Scott Climate Change and Representational Breakdown
game design
Jonah Weiner Where do dwarf-eating carp come from
Bret Victor stop drawing dead fish
Ian Bogost The Rhetoric of Video Games
other intelligences
Rolf Pfeifer, Symbols, Patterns, Behaviour: Toward a New Understanding of Intelligence
Elvia Wilk with Jenna Sutela Slime Intelligence
‘ai’
Shannon Mattern Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
Os Keyes The Body Instrumental
the decentralised web
Francis Tseng, Decentralise what?
Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the network
technology and urbanism
Shannon Mattern, A City is Not A Computer
Shannon Mattern, Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards
Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft
scraping and investigative journalism
bellingcat online investigation toolkit
list of people search and data broker websites
online activism
Zeynep Tufecki, Twitter and Tear Gas
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Out of the Shadows, into the Streets
Ethan Zuckerman, The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism
writing about libraries
Karly Wildenhaus Towards a Library Without Walls
Shannon Mattern, Fugitive Libraries
Shannon Mattern, Public In/Formation
great libraries online
bret victor’s library
laurel schwulst’s teaching library
monoskop aaaaarg
cybernetics digital library
great libraries offline
cybernetics library IRL
cool tech journalism/essays
logic mag
real life
the new inquiry
are.na blog