VIS149
Room: VAF 228
Thursday 9:30 to 12:20
Professor: Ricardo Dominguez
Email: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Class Description:
Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) as a
theory will be compared with the multiple forms of ECD practice that have
emerged since the early 1990's. We will investigate how ECD intersects with
earlier definitions of civil disobedience (CD) by Henry David Thoreau to
Ghandi. The class will also examine the trajectories of tactical media, digital
zapatismo, hacktivism, cyberwar and social netwar that arose at the same time
as ECD. Core questions for the class will be: is ECD a useful tactic for
contemporary activism and if so how and when; and, to what degree have post
9/11 politics effected the practice of ECD. The readings and examples of ECD
practice will only be on-line. Among the E-books on ECD that we will read
sections from: The Electronic Disturbance and Electronic Civil Disobedience by
Critical Art Ensemble; also, Hackitivism: network_art_activism by Electronic
Disturbance Theater; and The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico by David
Ronfeldt and John Arquilla. Also, one book will be read by the class Hacktivism
and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause? By Time Jordan and Paul A. Taylor.
Grading Policies
Final Grade Evaluation:
25% Assignments 1 Notebook Diary & One Midterm - 5 page
essay (MLA Style).
50% Attendance and Participation
25% Final Exam - Take home essay - 10 page essay (MLA Style).
Attendance:
You will be expected to attend every class. If you have more
than 2 unexcused absences, your final grade will drop 1/2 a letter for every
additional unexcused absence. Two unexcused lateness will be considered
an absence.
Thousands
protest Bush in Argentina
Protest Over Metal Detectors Gains Legs as Students Walk Out
Tunisians Conduct Online Protest
Class Structure:
Thursday, Sept 22 - Introduction
Watch
Info War.
Thursday, Sept 29 - Civil
Disobedience (CD)
Read:
Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Civil Disobedience
http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
Read:
Mark Shepard - 1990
Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in
the Real World
http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/Myths.html
Thursday, Oct 6- Electronic
Disturbance
Critical Art Ensemble - 1994
Electronic Disturbance (Read Chapters 2, 4 and 6)
http://www.critical-art.net/books/ted/index.html
Start to Read: Hacktivism and Cyberwar.
Thursday, Oct 13 -
Digital Zapatistas
Dr.
Harry Cleaver - February, 1994
The
Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/chiapasuprising.html
Jason Wehling - March, 1995
Netwars
and Activists: Power on the Internet
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp001518/Netwars.html
Sites to Visit:
EZLN (Zapatistas On-Line)
http://www.radioinsurgente.org/
Continue to Read: Hacktivism and Cyberwar
Thursday, Oct 20 - Electronic Civil Disobedience
Critical Art Ensemble - 1995
Electronic Civil Disobedience (Chapter 1 and 2).
http://www.critical-art.net/books/ecd/index.html
Thursday, Oct 27 - Digital Zapatistas 2
Dr. Harry Cleaver - 1998
A
Contribution to the Discussion of Electronic Civil Disobedience
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/harrycontrib.html
Performance
Art in a Digital Age - 1998
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/nyu/ECDperformance.doc
Continue to Read: Hacktivism and Cyberwar
Thursday, Nov 3 - Social Netwar
MID TERM DUE 5 Pages.
RAND - 1998
Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico (Chapter 2, 4 and
6)
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/
Site to Visit
Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Continue to Read: Hacktivism and Cyberwar
Thursday, Nov 10 - Social Netwar 2
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning - 1999
Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/cyberspace_the_new_frontier/cyberspc.html
Dr.
Jill Lane - 2000
Digital
Zapatistas
Continue to Read: Hacktivism and Cyberwar
Thursday, Nov 17 - Hacktivism
Thursday, Dec 1 - What Next?
Finish
Reading: Hacktivism and Cyberwar
Sandor Vegh - October, 2002
Hacktivists or Cyberterrorists?
More Suggested Books:
William Bogard, The
Simulation of Surveillance (1996)
Scott
Bukatman, Terminal Identity (1993)
Dorothy
E. Denning, Information Warfare and Security
(1999)
Chris
Hables Gray, Postmodern War (1997)
Tim
Jordan, Activism!: Hacktivism and the Future of Society
(2002)
Martha
Mccaughey, Cyberactivism (2003)
Graham
Meikle, Future Active (2002)
Nettime.org, Read Me! Read Me! Read
Me! (1999)
Michael
Perelman, Class Warfare In The Information Age
(1998)
Benjamin Shepard, from ACT UP to the
WTO (2002)
Winn
Schwartua, Cybershock (2000)
Adam
Wishart and Regula Bochsler, Leaving Reality Behind
(2002)
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http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/onlinesimulations.pdf
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/about/index.html
Tactical Media Reader
http://www.n5m.org/n5m4/dox/n5m_reader.pdf
Emergence of Noopolitik
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1033/
More Suggested Essays
Stefan Wray - 1999
World
Wide Web of Hacktivism
http://switch.sjsu.edu/web/v4n2/stefan/index.html
Dr.
Jon McKenzie - 1999
!nt3rh4ckt!v!ty
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/nyu/interhacktivity.doc
the
electrohippies collective occasional paper no.1 - February, 2000
Client-side Distributed Denial-of-Service
http://www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/papers/op1.html
Hacktivists Stage Virtual Sit-In at WEF Web site
http://www.alternet.org/story/12374
by Sandor Vegh