[Itself] Re: First Mtg: Info Societies, Technology & Self Reading Group

[Etienne S. Benson]

Hi Sandy, Candis & Anita - This sounds neat. Could you add me to the ITSelf 
contact list? Thanks -

Etienne


At 06:40 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Please join us next Thursday, September 25th, for the first meeting of the
>Information Societies, Technology, and Self Reading Group. We'd like to
>make the ITSelf Reading Group a cross/trans/interdisciplinary space to
>explore the fraught connections between information technologies, social
>organizations, politics and culture.  We will pay particular attention to
>building on existing disciplinary approaches.
>
>Our readings, as well as our overall agenda, we hope to be driven by the
>interests of the collective group. With members' interests so far spanning
>GPS, surveillance technologies and the state; space, engineering and
>cultures of computation and simulation; free software, international
>development and national sovereignty; and the growth of global/local
>networks and media technologies; a preliminary reading list includes:
>
>* Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society and The Informational City
>* Karl Marx, Machinery and Large Scale Industry, from Capital, vol. I
>* Paul Rabinow, Making PCR
>* Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Ideas
>* Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs
>* Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs
>
>When: Thursday, September, 25th 11AM - 1PM.
>Where: Conference Room in E51-275, MIT Campus
>
>For our first meeting, we'll cover two short readings - Paul Rabinow's
>"Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality", and
>short excerpt from Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig.
>Copies of the articles will be distributed from the STS student office,
>E51-185, or can be sent by inter-office mail on request.
>
>Please do bring ideas and suggestions for future readings and meetings.
>We'll supply the juice and snacks.
>
>For more information or to be added to the ITSelf contact list, email
>Sandy Brown, Candis Callison and Anita Chan at ITSelf at mit.edu
>
>Information Societies, Technology and Self is sponsored by the Initiative
>on Technology and Society at MIT.
>-------
>Sandy Brown, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
>Candis Callison, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
>Anita Chan, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT