COMPUTING: READING LIST

The following reading list comprises several (hyper)texts that have been discussed, and/or referred to in the course of the first semester for the module Introduction to Computing. Of course, the only text that is essential reading is McLuhan's all-time classic Understanding Media (unfortunately though, only the first seven chapters are available online; yet, on the other hand, these chapters constitute the main theoretical backbone of McLuhan's seminal book, and as such, they ought to be given particular attention).

-- here goes then:

Adorno, T. and Horkheimer, M. (1944) The Culture Industry: Enlightment as Mass Deception, from The Dialectic of Enlightment.
Bauwens, M. Peer-to-Peer: from technology to politics to a new civilization? (document in progress), 2001.
Dafermos, G. (2001) Management and Virtual Decentralised Networks: the Linux Project, First Monday, November.
Dafermos, G. (2003) Blogging the Market: how weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations.
Debord, G. (1967) The Society of the Spectacle.
Debord, G. (1988) Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle.
DiBona, C. et al. (1999) Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution.
Joy, B. (2000) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, Wired, April.
Kaczynski, T. (1995) The Unabomber's Manifesto (Industrial Society and its Future), The Washington Post, September.
Locke, C., Weinberger, D., Searls, D., and Levine, C. (1999) The Cluetrain Manifesto: the end of business as usual.
Marcuse, H. (1955) Eros and Civilization, A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud.
McLuhan, M. (1964) Understanding Media, the Extensions of Man.
Negri, A. and Hardt, M. (2000) Empire. Also available here, here, and there.
Vaneigem, R. (1972) The Revolution of Everyday Life (Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations).


Have I forgotten anything? Please let me know.

Also, I Intend to continuously update this list as time flows on, with more books, essays, papers, etc. For the time being though, the list carries only texts that I managed to find on the Web. Soon, I will also update the list with texts that are not (yet?) accessible online, such as Jeremy Rifkin's Age of Access, Bernard-Marie Koltes' s In the Solitute of the Cotton Fields, etc., etc.

UPDATE: I uploaded the updated version of the reading list (offline texts and proper links included) here.