essays
Note: In order to keep this list of online readings in Critical Art+Design, New Media, and Cultural Studies from bloating out, it is designed to be selective rather than exhaustive, and especially features links that didn’t go dead five seconds after they were published. This site is for educational use only.
- General Readings
- John Perry Barlow: “Selling Wine Without Bottles” 1992-1993 (plaintext version)
- Alex Blumberg: “It’s Good to Be King”
- Vannevar Bush: “As We May Think”
- Marlena Corcoran, “Worst Case Scenarios”
- Jullian Dibbell: “A Rape in Cyberspace”
- Philip K. Dick: “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”
- James Gleick–assorted writings
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve: “Virtuality and Vaudeville” (plaintext version)
- Donna Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto”
- Michael Heim: “The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace” (plaintext version)
- Dave Hickey: “Nothing Like the Son: On Robert Mapplethorpe’s X Portfolio”
- Lewis Hyde: “The First Lie”
- Michael Joyce: “Nonce Upon Some Time: Rereading Hypertext Fiction”
- Tom Junod: “The Falling Man”
- Eduardo Kac, “Transgenic Art”
- Antoinette LaFarge: “A World Exhilirating and Wrong”
- A. LaFarge: “WinSide Out: The Convergence of Computers, Games, and Art”
- A. LaFarge + Robert Allen: “Media Commedia” [PDF]
- Lev Manovich: “Principles of New Media (1)”
- William J. Mitchell: “Intention and Artifice”
- Robert Nideffer: “SHIFT-CTRL: Mediating the Process of Academic Exhibitionism”
- Simon Penny: “Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative: The Artist in Dataspace”
- Eric S. Raymond: “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
- Rob Riddell: “DOOM Goes To War”
- Sherry Turkle: “What Are We Thinking When We Are Thinking About Computers?”
- Grahame Weinbren: “Digital Revolution Is a Revolution of Random Access”