CogS 4350 - the Information of Meaning

Winter, 2009

 

This is the home page for CogS 4350 - the Information of Meaning, Winter, 2009.

Various things may be added here as the semester progresses, so be sure to check back . . .

Syllabus

These are the primary books we will be working with:

  1. Digital Culture, by Charlie Gere. Published by Reaktion Books, Ltd. ISBN 1-861-89143-1
  2. An Introduction to Information Theory, 2nd revised edition, by John R. Pierce. Published by Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-24061-4
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Published by Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-37926-7
  4. The Gold Bug Variations, by Richard Powers. Published by Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-097500-8
All the books are in paperback.

Tapestry in the Baroque -- "The Battle of the Milvian Bridge"

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (another link . . .)

What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger

Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing (simple text)

Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing (fancy / annotated)

Hebrew for Christians

Pounds

The Theory Notes (in .pdf form)

King James Bible On-line version, including the Apocrypha

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (see part 4, Ch. 4, line 130+, for some stuff on Lazarus . . .)

Perspective in Western art (in .pdf form -- 6.2 megabytes)

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