VIS149
Room:
MANDE 106
Wednesday
NOON - 2:50p .m
Email: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 1pm to 2pm (CAL IT2/Atkinson Hall 2nd fl - 2501)
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. What new tactics and strategies have
emerged with social networking and distributed video models. 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. The core text that we will be reading is Tactical Media by
Rita Raley. The class will also explore and develop an ECD performance in order to access and
evaluate the arcs between theory and practice.
Grading
Policies
Final
Grade Evaluation:
25%
Assignments: A Notebook Diary and One Midterm - 5 page
essay (MLA Style).
25%
Attendance and Participation
25% The class will
also learn how an ECD performance functions by learning the code, staging the code by deciding as a group what issue
might be the focus of the ECD performance and then doing the the gesture in order to better understand the process,
practice and outcomes of ECD.
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.
NEW LINKS - ON CD, ECD ACTIONS OR ANALYSIS DURING
OUR CLASS WILL APPEAR HERE:
The protesters interrupted a presentation by Republican pollster Bill McInturff,
whose work for AHIP on the series of early-90s "Harry and Louise" anti-health-care reform
commercials has been called by Advertising Age Ôamong the best conceived and executed public
affairs advertising programs in history.
http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/
The CIGNA 7 Get Themselves Arrested
http://post.thing.net/node/2864
Military Abduction at the G-20 Friday, 25 Sep 2009
http://post.thing.net/node/2834
Yes Men Honcho Sprung from Clink
http://post.thing.net/node/2830
http://savingucsd.ning.com
Operation Titstorm: hackers bring down government websites:
CLICK HERE
January 6th -
Introduction
Class Over View.
Watch Ghandi
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
EZLN (Zapatistas On-Line)
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
Febraury 3rd
- Electronic Civil Disobedience 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. (Start to think about what the focus of our ECD performance should be?)
Zapatista Social
Netwar in Mexico (Chapter 2, 4 and
6)
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/
The Strength of Weak Ties Revisted
Electronic
Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
View Source - code development and organizing the ECD performance.
Febraury 24th -
Social Netwar 2
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning - 1999
Activism,
Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism
http://www.iwar.org.uk/cyberterror/resources/denning.htm
Dr. Jill Lane - 2000 Digital
Zapatistas
http://post.thing.net/node/1370
Enjoy and see in the streets and on-line!
Toronto ‘hactivists’ benefit from grant
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