Chapter 1: Media

January 23: Discussion

Core

• Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Rant about ‘Technology’” (2004), external website
• Ken Liu, “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” (2012), external website
• Whitney Trettien, “Substrate, Platform, Interface, Format” (2023), resource via library

Penumbra

• Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message” (1964), resource via library
• Lisa Gitelman, “Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects,” from Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), resource via library
• N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, “Making, Critique: A Media Framework,” introduction to Comparative Textual Media (2013), resource via library
• Tara Brabazon, “Dead Media: Obsolescence and Redundancy in Media History” (2013), external resource
• Mark Alan Mattes, “Media” (2018), resource via library