VIS149
Room:
MANDE 212
Thursday
12:30 to 3:20
Email:
rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 4pm to 5pm (CAL IT2/Atkinson Hall 2nd fl - 2129) 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. 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. Recent, Current or Heading Our Way E-actions, CD actions and related trajectories. May Day LA Last Year
The Olympic flame shines a different light on two Chinese women
Chinese Student in U.S. Is Caught in Confrontation Oil sit-in pushes out Mexico MPs In Mexico, obstruction leads to justice Twitter messages alerted world Torching the Olympics Protests follow Olympic torch Images and News of Tibet Riots Seep Onto Web, Despite Chinese AuthoritiesŐ Clampdown Cyber risk 'equals 9/11 impact U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft Selling Cyberwar
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pride28apr28,1,5888240.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/17student.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7350026.stm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bloqueo14apr14,1,3507060.story
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8934411?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/10/torch/
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/images-and-news.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7335930.stm
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html
http://airforce.com/achangingworld/?eref=RM_CenturyAhead
April 3rd-
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
Chase Manhattn Bank Urges Zapatista Wipe-Out
EZLN (Zapatistas On-Line)
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
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/
The Strength of Weak Ties Revisted
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
http://post.thing.net/node/1370
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)
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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