Readings in English literature, with an emphasis on science and technology:
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1600s Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus Shakespeare, William. The Tempest 1700 Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels 1800s Butler, Samuel. Erewhon Poe, EA. The Dupin stories. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; The Last Man Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau 1900s+ Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adam Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. Borges, Jorge. Labyrinth Dick, Philip. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Forester, EM. Gibson, William. Neuromancer Kafka. The Trial; "Metamorphosis" LeGuin, Ursula K. Left Hand of Darkness Lem, Stanislaw. Solaris, His Master’s Voice Pynchon, Thomas. V, The Crying of Lot 49, "Entropy" Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano |
1600s Bacon. New Organon 1700s Newton, Isaac. Optics 1800s Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species 1900s+ Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind Bolter, J. David. Turing's Man Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams Galison, Peter. How Experimenters End Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Primate Visions Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time Hayles, Katherine. Chaos and Order, The Cosmic Web Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology. Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Philosophy Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.), The Copernican Revolution Latour, Bruno. Science in Action; We Have Never Been Modern, The Pasteurization of France Shapin, Stephen and Schaffer, Simon. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life Wiener, Norbert. The Human Use of Human Beings |