Week 1: The Computer
Computable Numbers: A Guide
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Week 2: The Calculating Engine
Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
(Chapters 1-5)
Week 3: Cybernetics
Cybernetics and Information Technology
The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
Week 4: Marx(ism)
Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
[optional watching] Fight Club
Week 5: Capital
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Week 6: Labour
Material world: The myth of the weightless economy
From Scream of Refusal to Scream of Power: The Centrality of Work