My Reading List

So I'm already behind, but things are starting to slow down so I should catch up soon.

Complexity and Network Summer Reading

Week One: June 6-10
(Re)-Introduction to Complexity Theory

Mark C. Taylor’s The Moment of Complexity
Rickert and Blakesley’s “Interview with Mark C. Taylor” in JAC 24.4 (2004): 805-820.

Week Two: June 13-17Complexity’s Significance

M. Mitchell Waldrop’s Complexity

Week Three: June 20-24Complex Systems & Networks

J. Stephen Lansing’s “Complex Adaptive Systems” Annual Rev. of Anthropology 32 (2003): 183-204

Steven Shaviro’s Connected: Or, What It Means to Live in the Network Society

Week Four: June 27- July 1Complexity, Rhetoric, & Composition

Thomas Rickert/David Blakesley, eds. JAC 24.4 Special Issue on Complexity (selections)
Bonnie Kyburz’s “Meaning Finds a Way: Chaos Theory and Composition” College English 66.5 (2004): 503-23
N. Katherine Hayles’ “Making the Cut: The Interplay of Narrative and System, or What Systems Theory Can’t See” Cultural Critique 30 (Spring 1995): 71-100

Holiday Break

Week Five: July 11-15Complexity & Postmodernism

Paul Cilliers’ Complexity and Postmodernism

Weeks Six and Seven: July 18-29Information, Ecology and Composition:

Bernardo Huberman’s The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information
Margaret Syverson’s The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition
*2 essays that I come into contact with through my reading

Week Eight: August 1-5Complexity, Cognition, Language

Antonio Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

Week Nine: AugustWrapping It Up?

Ulmer’s Internet Invention (here’s where I am hoping to make crossroads)