Critical Computation

schedule

Library

Week	Required Readings	Further Readings
1	Code (Chapter 1), Charles Petzold The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Design Justice Network Principles, Design Justice Network Can a Programming Language be a Radical Community? (podcast), Artists & Hackers
2	Engineered Inequity: Are Robots Racist?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin	Default Discrimination: Is the Glitch Systemic?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
3	The Power of Algorithms, Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble	A Brief History of (Modern) Time, Ian P. Beacock Time in Different Cultures, Exactly What is Time?, Luke Mastin
4	Design Thinking is a Rebrand of White Supremacy, Darin Buzon A for Anything, Benedetta Crippa	Uses of Use, Sara Ahmed Lean Out: the struggle for gender inequality in tech and startup culture, edited by Elissa Shevinsky What Atlanta Can Teach Tech About Cultivating Black Talent, Stephanie Dinkins
5	Woven Memory, the Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro	Indigenous Circuits, Lisa Nakamura Code Like a Weaver, Kristina Taylor The Hidden History of Magic Eye, the Optical Illusion That Briefly Took Over the World, AIGA Eye on Design, Liz Stinson 10 Print, Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter
6	Choose one chapter from Data Feminism to read, Catherine D'lgnazio and Lauren F. Klein	Dear Data, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec Feminist Dataset, Caroline Sinders Pattern Discrimination, Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl Mapping Wikipedia, Michael Mandiberg
7	Rise of the Videogames Zinesters, Anna Anthropy A Study Says High Family Income Significantly Increases Likelihood of Becoming an Artist, Hakim Bishara	Parables of Polygons, Nicky Case Return of the Yokai, 99% Invisible, Roman Mars My Parents Give me $28,000 a Year, Vox
8	I'm the Original Voice of Siri, Jessica Ravitz The Automation Charade, Astra Taylor	Robots, Race, and Algorithms: Stephanie Dinkins at Recess Assembly, Jacquelyn Gleisner Computing Machines and Intellegence,A.M. Turing Robotica (short documentary series), the New York Times
9	We Are the Original Life Hackers, Liz Jackson Universal Design and the Problem of “Post- Disability” Ideology, Aimi Hamraie	#CriticalAccess, The Disabled List Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch Common Cyborg, Jillian Weise Examined Life (clip) with Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor, directed by Astra Taylor Artificial Advancement, Taeyoon Choi
10	As If, Ramon Amaro Facial Weaponization Suite, Zach Blas	Behind White Shadows, Rosa Menkman The Labor of Appearance, Aria Dean The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition, Sahil Chinoy Poetics of Relations, Édouard Glissant
11	Consentful Tech Zine, Una Lee and Dan Toliver	Alt-Text as Poetry, Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan This is Not My Beautiful House, Everest Pipkin The Persistence of Vision, Donna Haraway clickclickclick.click/, Studio Moniker
12	Tactics and Poetics of Invisible Writing (excerpt), Amy Suo Wu	Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network, Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
13	Glitch Feminism (excerpt), Legacy Russell	Decolonizing Geographies of Power, Dallas Hunt, Shaun Stevenson Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman
14	Dark Data Zine, multiple contributors, Dark Data 2021	SubalterNet: Networked Practices from Latin America in Response to the Internet, Heber Rodriguez Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson