I started my Fall 2010 semester at UTD today. I’m excited to take 2 courses, but I am feeling a little bit freaked out about the required readings.
Course – EMAC Readings Course
We Live in Public (Film)
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
You Are not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
The Chaos Scenario
The Book of MPub
The Medium is the Massage
The YouTube Reader
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Course – Aesthetics: Beauty
The Republic
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Time, the Familiar Stranger
Biopoetics
On Aggression
The Language Instinct
Chaos: Making a New Science
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
On Aesthetics in Science
The Power of Limits
Whew. That’s a lot of books for a slow-reader to read in one semester!
from one slow-reader to another: you can do it, Ben! I hope the book mountain has gotten a little smaller by now.