MMAS 179
TACTICAL MEDIA / D.I.Y. ANARCHY
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 211. MW 11:30-1:00
location: university of north carolina asheville

class-specific | readings & artwork



intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
MMAS attendance policy
MMAS grading policy

major assignments
theory analysis and response paper
artwork analysis and critique paper
[common problems with student papers]

writing resources
writing center handouts (UNC)
the citation machine (warlick)

required text
Tactical Media (raley)

supplementary texts
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (marcus)
The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (plant)



MEDIA
The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof (marx) [1867]
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (benjamin) [1935]
Understanding Media (mcluhan) [1964]
The Death of the Author (barthes) [1967]
The Society of the Spectacle (debord) [1967]
The Revolution of Everyday Life (vaneigem) [1967]
Simulacra and Simulations (baudrillard) [1985]
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Fountain (mutt)
from "The Eternal Now" (lapham)
Theory of the Dérive (debord)
On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time [433 MB, avi]
May 1968 graffiti
get your war on (rees)
banksy (banksy)
demotivational poster generator
No Fun (sex pistols) [1977]
Careering / Poptones (public image limited) [1980]


POWER
Panopticism (foucault) [1975]
Making Do: Uses and Tactics (de certeau) [1980]
The Temporary Autonomous Zone (bey) [1985]
Postscript on Control Societies (deleuze) [1990]
Industrial Society and Its Future (kaczynski) [1995]
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Making Changes (walton)


TACTICS
Electronic Civil Disobedience (critical art ensemble) [1994]
The ABC of Tactical Media (garcia/lovink) [1997]
a hacker manifesto [version 4.0] (wark) [2004]
"The Exploit" and "Tactics of Nonexistence" (galloway/thacker) [2007]
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critical art ensemble tactical media projects
surveillance camera players
documentary on trevor paglen
project chanology (anonymous)


RESPONSES
Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary (thompson) [2004]
Commodify Your Consumption (cloninger) [2009]
Entangled Activisms (kerr, thompson, et al.) [2009]
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Spurse's Expanded Field (klein)
Spirit Surfers