VIS149
Room:
VAF 228
Thursday
9:00 to 12:00
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.
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.
Toronto ‘hactivists’ benefit from grant
Watch
Info War: The Hackivist.
Henry David
Thoreau - 1849
Civil Disobedience
http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
Mark Shepard -
1990
Civil
Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in
the Real World
http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/Myths.html
http://www.critical-art.net/books/ted/index.html
The
Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/chiapasuprising.html
Netwars
and Activists: Power on the Internet
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp001518/Netwars.html
http://www.radioinsurgente.org/
Electronic
Civil Disobedience (Chapter 1 and 2).
http://www.critical-art.net/books/ecd/index.html
A
Contribution to the Discussion of Electronic Civil Disobedience
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/harrycontrib.html
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/nyu/ECDperformance.doc
MID TERM DUE 5 Pages.
Zapatista Social
Netwar in Mexico (Chapter 2, 4 and
6)
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/
Electronic
Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Activism,
Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/cyberspace_the_new_frontier/cyberspc.html
Dr. Jill Lane - 2000 Digital
Zapatistas
JUNE 4th - What
Next?
Hacktivists
or Cyberterrorists?
http://post.thing.net/node/1370
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)
___________
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
