LFI 2026/Week 3

Week 3: How we got here: internet origins, ideologies, and logics

• Real time lecture: March 6th, 11-1 pacific/12-2 mountain/1-3 central/2-4 pm eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: TBD

Readings

It's a lot of readings this week. Don't get overwhelmed! Read what you can, and save the rest for later.

• Notes on Surveillance Studies - Part one; Part two (from Simone Browne's On the Surveillance of Blackness, 2015) (Content note: honest depictions of chattel slavery)
• A People's History of the Internet (from Ben Tarnoff's Internet for the People, 2022)
• "Wired" (chapter from Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 2006) Part one Part two
• The Californian Ideology, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
• The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson (2000)
• pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace, humdog aka Carmen Hermosillo (1994)
• Free Speech in the Panopticon" (chapter from P.E. Moskowitz' The Case Against Free Speech, 2019)
• "The Free Speech Exception to Palestine", Steven Salaita (2024)

Guest lecturer

No guest lecturer. Alison will lead this week's discussion.

Tasks

• Discord discussion from week 2
• Readings