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Oct 012026 Welcome to Class

Oct 062026 Technology and Myth

Oct 082026 Do Artifacts Have Politics?

still from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Oct 132026 Weekly Project: Write an Origin Myth

Oct 132026 Writing as Technology

Oct 152026 Mnemotechnics

prep school boys standing on their desks reciting poems in the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets' Society

Oct 202026 Weekly Project: Memorize a Poem

Oct 212026 Circulation, Scale, and Knowledge

Oct 222026 Objectivity Shock

Oct 272026 Weekly Project: Drawing Machines

Oct 272026 In-Class Essay 1

Oct 292026 Tool-Use, Human Nature, and the Theory of Affordances

Nov 032026 Weekly Project: Tool, Purpose, Use

Nov 032026 All Technology is Assistive

Nov 052026 Alienation and the Device Paradigm

colored pencils stacked like a log house

Nov 102026 Weekly Project: Tools and Uses: Elaboration into Affordances

Nov 102026 Technologies of Distraction

Nov 122026 Techniques of Attention

Image of a pencil in a hand writing words

Nov 172026 In-Class Essay 2

Nov 192026 Technology, Body, Self

still of the main characters from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) looking at Picasso paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago

Nov 242026 Weekly Project: Have an Experience

Nov 242026 Weekly Project: Get Distracted

Nov 252026 Art and Technics

1960s photo of a giant float at the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade; it is a robot or possibly an astronaut; I'm not sure.

Nov 262026 No Class – Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec 012026 Weekly Project: TBD

Dec 012026 Form, Matter, Making

Dec 032026 Automation and Human Value

Dec 082026 Weekly Project: Imagine Full Automation

Dec 082026 Topic TBD

Dec 102026 “sic itur ad astra”

Dec 152026 Weekly Project: Choose Your Own Adventure

Dec 172026 “In-Class” (Final) Essay #3

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