Tuesday, March 18 (Week 8)
- Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence” from Harper’s Magazine Feb. 2007 59–71. (The preceding link goes to the web version; here’s the PDF version)
- Kenneth Goldsmith, selections from Uncreative Writing (2011)
- In-class: Poem Dewriter and Markov Chains
Thursday, March 20
- James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins, Theft: A History of Music (2017), pages 50-113, 160-179, and 201-219
- Textual Mashups through Markov chains
- Flog #8 due EOD on Friday, March 21
Tuesday, March 25 (Week 9)
- Virginia Kuhn, “The Rhetoric of Remix” from The Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures 9 (2012)
- In-class: Rhetorical Moves of Remixes and Mashups
- Hack #4 handed out
Thursday, March 27
- Lizzie O’Shea, “Protect the Digital Commons” from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology (2019)
- Flog #9 due EOD on Friday, March 28
Tuesday, April 1 (Week 10)
Play any three of the following games. Each was an entry in the “Gaming Like It’s 192x” game jam, which requires game makers to use at least one source that recently entered into the public domain:
- Eleanor by Micah McFarland (from the Gaming Like It’s 1929 jam)
- A Warning by DigNZ (from the Gaming Like It’s 1929 jam…takes a while to load in the browser)
- 1928 Author Clicker Tycoon (from the Gaming Like It’s 1928 jam)
- Millions of Cats by Javi Muhrer, Chris Muhrer & McCoy Khamphouy (from the Gaming Like It’s 1928 jam)
- Lucia by Azzyfree (from the Gaming Like It’s 1927 jam)
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle DECODED by Anna Wu (from the Gaming Like It’s 1926 jam)
- Rhythm Action Gatsby by Robert Tyler (from the Gaming Like It’s 1925 jam)
- THE GREAT GATSBY by Floatingtable Games (from the Gaming Like It’s 1925 jam)
- 192X by chloe spears (from the Gaming Like It’s 1924 jam)
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to Steal Treasure by Alex Blechman (from the Gaming Like It’s 1923 jam)
Thursday, April 3
- In-class workshop on remixes
- Flog #10 due EOD on Friday, April 4
Tuesday, April 8 (Week 11)
- Hack #4 (Remix) Screenings
Thursday, April 10
- Hack #4 (Remix) Screenings
Icon: turntable by Putra from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)