Comps Reading

Proposed Comps Areas

1. Rhetoric & Composition
   1. Digital Rhetorics
2. 20th Century Science Fiction
3. Special Topic: Transhumanism

Area 1: Rhetoric & Composition

• David Abram
  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
• Aristotle
  • On Rhetoric X
• St. Augustine
  • On Christian Doctrine
• Wayne Booth
  • Rhetoric of Fiction X
  • The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication X
• Cicero
  • First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline Notes X
• Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation
• Edward P.J. Corbett
  • �The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist.� CCC. 20.5 (1969) 288-296. Notes X
• Sharon Crowley
  • The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric X
• Isocrates
  • “Antidosis” Notes X
  • “Against the Sophist” X Notes
• Diane Davis
  • �Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Nonappropriate Relation.� Philosophy and Rhetoric. 38.3 (2005) 191-212. Notes X
• Paul De Man
  • Allegories of Reading X
• Terry Eagleton
  • “A Small History of Rhetoric” in Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism X
• Kathryn Flannery
  • �Style as Cultural Capital.� The Emperor�s New Clothes. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh Press, 1995. X
• David K. Glidden
  • “Epicurean prolepsis,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. 3:175-215, 1985. Notes X
• Heraclitus
  • _Fragments X
• Sister Miriam Joseph
  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric X
• George A. Kennedy
  • Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. 2nd Ed. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1999. X
• Eric A. Havelock
  • The Literate Revolution in Greece
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language Notes X
• Walter J. Ong
  • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
  • Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Notes X
• Plato
  • Gorgias X
  • Phaedrus X
• Quinitilian
  • Institutio Oratorio. Trans. Donald Russell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.
• Dennis Tedlock (trans.)
  • The Popol Vuh
• Robert Anton Wilson
  • Cosmic Trigger, vol. 1 X
  • The Illuminatus! Trilogy X
• Richard Whatley
  • Elements of Rhetoric Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and Persuasion with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
• Richard Wilhelm (trans.)
  • The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

Area 1.1: Digital Rhetorics (Media Ecology?)

• Chris Andersen
  • “The Long Tail”
  • “Is There a There in Cyberspace?”
• Gregory Bateson
  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind
• Jean Baudrillard
  • The Perfect Crime Notes X
• Jay David Bolter
  • Turing’s Man
• Jacques Ellul
  • The Technological Society
• Bill Gates
  • “Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere” X Notes
• William Gibson
  • “God’s Little Toys” Notes X
• Bruce Grenville (editor)
  • The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
• Donna Haraway
  • “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” X
• Harold Innis
  • Empire and Communications
• Fredric Jameson
  • “Surrealism Without the Unconscious,” Postmodernism X
• Bill Joy
  • “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us” X
• George Kubler
  • The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
• Pamela M. Lee
  • Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s Notes X
• Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard
  • The Postmodern Condition
  • Just Gaming X
• Janine Marchessault
  • Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema X
• Lev Manovich
  • The Language of New Media
• Marshall McLuhan
  • The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Notes X
  • The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
  • War and Peace in the Global Village
• Carolyn R. Miller
  • “What Can Automation Tell Us about Agency?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37 (2007): 137-57. Notes X
• Marvin Minsky
  • Society of Mind
• Negativland
  • Negativland’s Tenets of Cultural Appropriation
  • Changing Copyright
• J.R. Pierce
  • Symbols, Signals, Noise
• Michelle Sidler
  • “The Not-so-distant Future: Composition Studies in the Culture of Biotechnology” 2004. Computers and composition 21:129-145. X
• George A. Ulmer
  • Teletheory. New York: Routledge, 1989. X
• Barbara Warnick
  • Looking to the Future: Electronic Texts and the Deepening Interface. Technical Communication Quarterly 14 (2005): 327-33. (Notes) X
• Norbert Weiner
  • Human Uses of Human Beings X
• Anne Wysocki
  • “Awaywithwords: On the Possibilities in Unavailable Designs.” Computers and Composition 22 (2005) 55-62. (Notes) X
• Gene Youngblood
  • _Expanded Cinema

Area 2: 20th/21st Century Science Fiction

Area 2.1: Fictions

• Greg Bear
  • Blood Music X
• Alfred Bester
  • The Stars My Destination X
• William Burroughs
  • The Soft Machine X
  • The Ticket That Exploded X
  • Nova Express X
  • Ghost of Chance X
• Octavia Butler
  • The Parable of the Sower X
  • The Parable of the Talents
  • Dawn X
  • Adulthood Rites X
  • Imago X
  • Fledgling
  • Wild Seed X
  • Clay's Ark X
  • Mind of My Mind X
  • Patternmaster X
• Pat Cadigan
  • Tea From an Empty Cup X
• Philip K. Dick
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch X
  • Ubik X
  • A Scanner Darkly X
  • The Man In the High Castle X
  • VALIS X
• Cory Doctorow
  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom X
• William Gibson
  • Neuromancer X
  • Count Zero X
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive X
  • Burning Chrome X
  • Pattern Recognition X
  • Spook Country X
• Andrea Hairston
  • Mindscape
• Joe Haldeman
  • Forever War X
  • Forever Peace X
  • Forever Free X
  • The Coming X
  • Old Twentieth X
• Nalo Hopkinson
  • Brown Girl in the Ring
  • Midnight Robbers
• Robert Heinlein
  • Starship Troopers X
• Ken MacLeod
  • Cosmonaut Keep X
• Chris Moriarty
  • Spin State X
  • Spin Control X
• Richard K. Morgan
  • Altered Carbon X
  • Broken Angels X
  • Woken Furies X
• Rudy Rucker
  • Postsingular X
• Joanna Russ
  • The Female Man X
• Dan Simmons
  • Hyperion X
  • The Fall of Hyperion X
• Bruce Sterling
  • Schismatrix X
• Neal Stephenson
  • The Diamond Age
  • Snow Crash X
  • Interface X
  • Anathem X
• Charlie Stross
  • Iron Sunrise X
  • Singularity Sky X
  • Accelarando X
  • Glasshouse X
  • Halting State X
• Theodore Sturgeon
  • More Than Human? X
• Liz Williams
  • The Banner of Souls X
  • The Empire of Bones X
• Bernard Wolfe
  • Limbo X
• Vernor Vinge
  • Rainbow’s End X
  • Marooned in Realtime X

Area 2.2: Films

• Various
  • “Neon Genesis Evangelion” X
• “Akira” X
  • “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” X
  • “Videodrome” X
  • “Dog Star Man” X
  • “2001: A Space Odyssey” X
  • “Space is the Place” X
  • “Holy Mountain”
  • “Ghost in the Shell” X
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• “Star Trek: TNG”
  • “All Good Things…”
  • “Encounter At Far Point”
  • Traveler Episodes (Season 2, Season 7)

Area 2.3: Theory

• Darko Suvin
  • “On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre”, College English 34:4 (1972): 372-82
• Carl Freedman
  • Critical Theory & Science Fiction
• Tom Moylan
  • Scraps of the Untainted
• Fredric Jameson
  • Archeologies of the Future X
• Candelaria Matthew (editor)
  • Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction

Area 3: Transhumanism

Area 3.1: General Theories of Transhumanism

• Brian Alexander
  • Rapture X
• Sri Aurobindo
  • Life Divine X
• Henri Bergson
  • Creative Evolution
• JD Bernal
  • _The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
• Howard Bloom
  • Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century Notes X
• David Bohm
  • Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• Rodney Brooks
  • Flesh and Machines X
• Vannevar Bush
  • “As We May Think”
• Charles Darwin
  • The Descent of Man
• Gilles Deleuze
  • Leibniz and the Fold
  • What Is Philosophy? (w/ Felix Guattari) (Chapter on Mind / Thought) X
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Phenomenon of Man X
  • Future of Man X
• Richard Doyle
  • On Beyond Living X
  • Wetwares
• Eric K. Drexler
  • Engines of Creation
• Kodwo Eshun
  • More Brilliant Than the Sun X
• Richard P. Feynman
  • “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”
• Mary Flanagan + Austin Booth (eds.)
  • ReLoad: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
• Ludwik Fleck
  • Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact X
• Francis Fukuyama
  • Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
  • “The World’s Most Dangerous Idea”. Foreign Policy 144 (Sept-Oct 2004): p32-50. Notes X
• Buckminster Fuller
  • “Inexorable Evolution”
• Felix Guattari
  • Chaosmosis Notes X
• Gary Genosko
  • Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction
• Stephen S. Hall
  • Merchants of Immortality
• N. Katherine Hayles
  • How We Became Posthuman Notes X
• Heather J. Hicks
  • “Automating Feminism” X
• Aldous Huxley
  • _Ape and Essence_Notes X
• Julian Huxley
  • “Transhumanism” X
• Philip Kuberski
  • Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory After Modernism Notes X
• Raymond Kurzweil
  • The Singularity Is Near X
  • Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (w/ Terry Grossman)
• Timothy Leary
  • Changing My Mind, Among Others (Notes)
  • Chaos and Cyberculture
• Gottfried Leibniz
  • The Monadology
• Wyndham Lewis
  • America and Cosmic Man X
• Pierre Levy
  • Collective Intelligence Notes X
  • Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age Notes X
• John Lilly
  • The Scientist
  • Programming the Human Biocomputer
• Terrence & Dennis McKenna
  • The Invisible Landscape X
• Lynne McTaggert
  • The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe X
• C. Lloyd Morgan
  • Emergent Evolution
• Daniel Pinchbeck
  • 2012: The Return of Quetzcoatl X
• F. David Peat
  • Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind
• K.D. Sethna
  • Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo – A Focus On Fundamentals Notes X
• Clay Shirky
  • Here Comes Everybody X
• Allan Stoekl
  • Bataille’s Peak X
• Frederick Taylor
  • The Principles of Scientific Management
• Frank Tipler
  • The Physics of Immortality X
• Jakob von Uexkull
  • “A Stroll Through the World of Animals and Man” X
• Genevieve Vaughn
  • “The Gift Economy”
• Thorstein Veblen
  • The Engineers and the Price System
• Vladimir Vernadsky
  • _The Biosphere_Notes
• Arthur M. Young
  • Consciousness and Reality: The Human Pivot Point
  • The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness
• Simon Young
  • Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto X

Area 3.2: Collectivity

• Fredric Jameson
  • The Political Unconscious X
  • Postmodernism X
• Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard
  • The Inhuman Notes
• Paulo Virno
  • Grammar of the Multitude
• H.G. Wells
  • The Open Conspiracy Notes X
  • The New World Order
  • “The World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia” Notes X

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Number of Items

• Area 1: Rhetoric & Composition: 65 Books/Articles (36 Read)
  • Area 1.1: Digital Rhetorics (Media Ecology?): 34 Books/Articles (15 Read)
• Area 2: 20th/21st Century Science Fiction: 80 Books/Articles (66 Read)
  • Area 2.1: Fictions: 64 Books/Articles (58 Read)
  • Area 2.2: Films: 11 Books/Articles (7 Read)
  • Area 2.3: Theory: 5 Books/Articles (1 Read)
• Area 3: Transhumanism: 65 Books/Articles (34 Read)
  • Area 3.1: General Theories of Transhumanism: 58 Books/Articles (30 Read)
  • Area 3.2: Collectivity: 7 Books/Articles (4 Read)

Total Books: 210 (Read 136)