hi john, bricos,

beyond Gabriella Coleman who covers great academic hactivist breadth, i would also recommend (among many others as well) neural.it which for many years has always included hactivism/code/systems as part of the aesthetic and critical art practices it traces and reports on. In this way hacktivism gets very well contextualised in a broader history and development of artistic and cultural technologies practice.

cheers,

stephen


On 14.09.2012, at 06:40, John Hopkins wrote:

> Ei folks --
>
> As I told you, I'm teaching an undergraduated course "Meaning of Information Technology" here at the Uni in Boulder -- there are some CS/IT/EE students among the wide range of majors represented, but their ideas about hacking are VERY limited (though they think they are grand and universal ;-)
>
> Any advice? :: what sources/resources can I point them to -- to blow their minds??
>
> Otherwise I'm having some fun, and there are some of the 40 kids who are awake or awakening. Some are not. Being an upper-middle-class American kid these days is a crazy pathway, given the control that media plays in their lives -- and the very unbalanced way of living that that media promotes. On the first day of class, I told them that they are the subjects of industrial education. And asked, what can we do to make our encounter humane, balanced, sustainable, and energized...? We are now implementing things that should forge a pathway to knowledge and perhaps even a bit of wisdom.
>
> The evolving syllabus (which doesn't give much info as to the actual dialogues that are happening in class session) will be a map of where we were when done. I did record one 75-minute session that I will perhaps upload. I've missed recording two sessions because the students are arriving 30 minutes BEFORE class because they know I am already there: conversations start at that point, and by the time every one is there, I've long since forgotten to turn the recorder on....
>
> ANYWAY, I appreciate the earlier resource suggestions last month -- and I appreciate the support -- the task to crack open an energized space within the US system in its current condition is not easy. Obama and Romney are showing up live somewhere around here every other day, and much money and attention spent on the madness that forms around power.
>
> On a side note, I will be curious to hear from people visiting ISEA in Albuquerque from the outside -- I hope some of you do write your observations here on brico -- I would love to hear the perspective! As perspective tends to be limited in the Belly of the Beast ...
>
> Cheers,
> John
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