LFI 2026/Week 2

Week 2: How we got here: internet origins, ideologies, and logics

• Real time lecture: TBD
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: TBD

Readings

• Notes on Surveillance Studies - Part one; Part two (from Simone Browne's On the Surveillance of Blackness, 2015) (Content note: honest and direct depictions of US 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)
• Free Speech in the Panopticon" (chapter from P.E. Moskowitz' The Case Against Free Speech, 2019)

Guest lecturer

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

Tasks

• Discord discussion from week 1
• Readings