Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of the questions tackled by researchers in the field of Science and Techn

HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve been dabbling in this field, so I thought of curating the best resources in one place.

We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film, books, sci-fi, music, games, and internet memes.

The purpose of discussion questions is to generate discussion. This makes them significantly different from information-seeking questions.

The Human, Social, Political Sciences (HSPS) Cambridge undergraduate degree purports to offer students a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that matter in our world.

In the fall 2018 semester, I am teaching a semester-long class on Cyborgs and Cybernetics at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Due to popular demand, I’m sharing the reading list. The course is taught as a 3000-level, writing intensive seminar. It meets twice a week for about 2 hours per session.

Our semester will be divided into four units: Epistemological Architectures (Weeks 3-5), Epistemological Apparatae (Weeks 6-8), Human Subjects + Publics (Weeks 10-11), and Collections + Content (Weeks 12-14)

Our bodies and identities are intimately bound to the spaces we move through. It is impossible to conceive of a meaningful space without considering it alongside embodiment and the practices that tie our identities to our bodies.

A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by non-Kanaka Maoli for science.

It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

Prepared February 2018.  This is in no way exhaustive but meant to be one of many resources, for men in particular, towards the larger movement of undoing patriarchy, ending sexual- and gender-based violence, and decreasing all violence.

Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

This course examines the history, theory, and practice of making art on the web. Beginning with early examples of systems theory, we will trace the utopian ideals of the web’s origin to the commercial and social complexity of the net today.

Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents – many of them highly treasured theoretical classics, others obscure anarchic tomes and legal texts – presented in a simple, sleek alphabetized index of .pdfs.

The idea from the beginning was that AAAARG’s collection would grow organically, since anyone can upload a text to the site. But what takes this beyond basic p2p sharing is the way the index relates to the site’s other peer features: first, a discussion page mostly featuring book requests and text uploads, and second, a page of user-made issues that cluster books around a general theme. So not only the text index, but also the classifications that organize them grow collaboratively.

Even more interesting about all this is the high quality of useful content. Which also makes it fragile (just read on).