Computational Thinking: Lecture 7: Consuming

Computational Thinking

Joel Gethin Lewis

Lecture 7: Consuming

Ant Farm. Spatial Agency article. Video of Media Burn on Ubuweb - which is a brilliant resource for avant-garde art in general.
Hole in Space by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz. Video excerpt.
Great book on media consumption/creation: The Secret War between Uploading and Downloading by Peter Lunenfeld.

Genes allow living things to pass on biological information between generations.
Memes allow humans to pass on information between each other, across time.
Kill all Normies by Angela Nagle is an interesting book on the spread of online culture into the real world - from 4chan to the "alt-right".

It is ironic that Disney has continually extended copyright in the United States in order to protect Mickey Mouse, as it draws so strongly from the Commons for many of its films.
Relational Aesthetics was a book written in 1998 by Nicolas Bourriaud that documented the work of artists that wanted to produce work outside of the traditional gallery system, or perhaps work that was impossible to sell. See "WTF is… Relational Aesthetics?" or the work of Tino Sehgal.

Aaron Swartz was the co-founder of Reddit, hacker and activist. He was a believer in the Digital Commons. For more about his life, watch The Internet's Own Boy.
Mark Fisher was a writer and cultural theorist. His works Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? and The Weird and the Eerie have been particularly useful to me.
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman is another book that I would recommend, in a similar vein.
Finally, Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects has been very helpful to think of more effective ways of thinking about Global Warming.