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• Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access
• Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• El oro de los sueños by José María Merino
• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles
• Infomocracy by Malka Older
• Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access
• Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon
• Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Maurice S. Lee
• Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts
• Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang

All my reading notes, by year finished

2024

• Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark
  

  Wark asks us to think about information less like Marxists and more like Marx.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  

  Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter searching for escaped androids in a radioactive Northern California where social status is measured by caring for live animals, as an indicator of empathy.

• El oro de los sueños by José María Merino
  

  A edition of José María Merino’s book, adapted by Yolanda Pinto Gómez.

• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles
  

  Hayles examines literary fiction and technological texts for her study of how information became conceived of as immaterial, of how the figure of the cyborg was invented in cultural and technological discourses, and how this cybernetic discourse altered the understanding of the liberal humanist subject.

• Infomocracy by Malka Older
  

  Twenty years into a global experiment with micro-democracy, and Information workers (or antagonists) hope to protect this political experiment through the next world-wide election cycle.

• Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access
  

  This article provides an up-to-date interpretation of primary and secondary accounts of Ponce de León’s travels to Florida.

• Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Maurice S. Lee
  

  Lee explores the history of how various cultural formations around literature and information grew through the 19th Century Information Revolution.

• Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang
  

  Darby and Lang offer a wealth of small interventions one can make to improve the experiences of online learners and teachers. I definitely recommend this for anyone who teaches online.

2023

• Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access
  

  Abstract: This paper suggests a three-pronged approach for conceptualizing active learning in the online asynchronous class: the creation of an architecture of engagement in the online classroom, the use of web-based tools in addition to the learning management system, and a re-imagining of discussion boards as interactive spaces.

• Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon
  

  Purdon examines modernist fiction to trace how writers experienced information culture as a disturbing interruption and governmental intrusion.

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