Readings

(1/30) Peter Elbow – FreewritingDownload
(2/4) Frederick Douglass – Learning to Read and WriteDownload
(2/6) Walter Ong – Writing is a Technology that Restructures ThoughtDownload
(2/11) Wolfgang Schivelbusch – The Railway Journey (from the pdf, read chps. 1, “The Mechanization of Motive Power,” and 3, “Railroad Space and Railroad Time”)Download

(2/13) Karl Marx – Machinery and Modern Industry — read section 3A (on the employment of women and children) and section 4 (“The Factory”)

(2/18) James Carey – Technology and Ideology: The Case of the TelegraphDownload
(2/25) E.M. Forster – The Machine Stops (chapters 1 & 2)Download

(2/27) Finish The Machine Stops, chapter 3

(3/3) Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

(3/5) Christine Rosen – The Image CultureDownload