CogS 4350 / Hons 3050 - the Information of Meaning

Winter, 2010

 

This is the home page for CogS 4350 / Hons 3050 - the Information of Meaning, Winter, 2010.

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.

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 . . .)

Purple and green optical illusion

Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (from SFMOMA)

Whole Earth Catalog (some sample pages)

The Medium is the Massage (Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore)

A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)

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

The Gold-bug - by E. A. Poe