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Readings

Ses # Topics readings
Lec 1 Introduction Talbot, David. "How Tech Failed in Iraq." MIT Technology Review.
Lab 1 Doctor Strangelove Screening: Kubrick, Stanley. Doctor Strangelove.
Lec 2 Fictions of War, Philosophy of War, History of War
Orwell, George. 1984. Book One. New York, NY: Signet Classic, pp. 1-104. ISBN: 0451524934. (Required Book)

Tzu, Sun. Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. Sections I-VIII, The Internet Classics Archive.

Thucydides. "Outbreak of War." In History of the Peloponnesian War. Penguin Classics. Book II, pp. 124-193.

Van Creveld, Martin. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. New York, NY: Free Press, 1989. ISBN: 002933151X. Chapters 1-3 (pp. 9-50), chapter 5 (pp. 67-78).
Lab 2 Ran

Air Force
Screening: Kurosawa. Ran. 1985.

Hawks. Air Force. 1943.
Lec 3 WWII: Code Wars
Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. New York, NY: Avon, 2002. ISBN: 0060512806. pp. 77-92, 143-183, 215-294, 315-364.

Singh, Simon. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1999. ISBN: 0385495315. Chapters 3-6 (pp. 101-292).

Van Creveld, Martin. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. New York, NY: Free Press, 1989. ISBN: 002933151X. Chapters 16-18 (pp. 235-283).

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Multitude. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, pp. 12-62, notes: pp. 361-369.
Lab 3 Akira
Screening: Katsuhiro 'tomo. Akira.

Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt. "Cyberwar is Coming!" pp. 24-50.

Weiguang, Shen. "Information War - A New Challenge." pp. 84-95.

Kittler, Friedrich. "On the History of the Theory of Information Warfare." pp. 266-272.

From: Infowar, Ars Electronica Center (Springer Wien/New York).
Lab 4 Rumsfeld's War Screening: Frontline: Rumsfeld's War. PBS, 2004.
Lec 5 The New War Machines

Guest Speaker: Owen Cote, Associate Director of Security Studies at MIT
Cote, Owen. "The New War Machines." MIT Technology Review (March 21, 2003).
Lab 5 Eternal War Research Topics: Discussion of Final Papers and Projects

Control Room
Screening: Noujaim, Jehane. Control Room. 2004.
Lec 6 History of War Technologies/War Games
DeLanda, Manuel. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. New York, NY: Zone Books. ISBN: 0942299752. (Required Book)

Van Creveld, Martin. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. New York, NY: Free Press, 1989. ISBN: 002933151X. Chapters 1-3 (pp. 9-50), chapter 5 (pp. 67-78), chapters 12-13 (pp. 167-199).
Lab 6 War Games

Screening: Badham, John. War Games.

Secrets of War: Spy Games of World War II. 1998.

America's Army (Web Game)

Patriot Act (Web)

War Against Terror (Web)

Interview Hyperlink: Democracy Now. Thursday, February 12, 2004.
Lec 7 First-Person Shooters
Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War. Eos.

Herr, Michael. "Hell Sucks." In Dispatches. Reprint edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1980. ISBN: 0380019760. pp. 70-85.

Tesanovic, Jasmina. The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 2000. ISBN: 1573441147. pp. 71-112.

Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War. New York, NY: Putnam, 2004. ISBN: 0399151931. Chapters 7-11, pp. 71-123.
Lab 7  The Fog of War Screening: Morris, Erol. The Fog of War.
Lec 8 Virtuous War

Guest Speaker: James der Derian
der Derian, James. Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industiral-Media-Entertainment Network. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. ISBN: 0813397944. pp. 22-249.

Silberman, Steve. "The War Room." Wired (September 2004): 150-155, 171-173.

Virilio, Paul, and Sylvere Lotringer. Pure War. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agent Series. Chapters 1-3, pp. 9-36.
Lab 8 Virtual War

After 9/11

Wag the Dog
Levinson, Barry. Wag the Dog.

Screening: der Derian. After 9/11.
Lec 9 Man Machines: Race and War

Guest Speakers: Director Reggie Hudlin and Comic Artist Kyle Baker, Birth of a Nation Comic Book Project
Truth Series. Marvel Comics.

Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 343-401.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York, NY: Norton, 1999. ISBN: 0393317552. Chapter 13 (pp. 239-264).
Lab 9 Birth of a Nation and Hearts of the World Screening: Griffith, D. W. Birth of a Nation and Hearts of the World. 1918.
Lec 10 21 Century War: The War in Iraq and the Branding of Terrorism Sante, Luc. "Tourists and Torturers." New York Times, May 11, 2004.

Hiro, Dilip. War Without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response. New York, NY: Routledge.

"The Rise of Islam," pp. 3-24.

"Islamist Terrorism and Global Response." pp. 267-434.

Agamben, Giorgio. "We Refugees."

Black, Edwin. Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN: 047167186X. Chapters 13-17, pp. 211-352.

Van Creveld, Martin. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. Chapters 19-Conclusion, pp. 285-320.

Michael, John. "Beyond Us and Them: Identity and Terror from an Arab American's Perspective." The South Atlantic Quarterly 102, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 701-728.
Lab 10 Battle of Algiers Screening: Battle of Algiers.
Lec 11 Project Presentations
Lab 11 Project Presentations (cont.)
Lec 12 Project Presentations (cont.)
Lab 12 Project Presentations (cont.)