This semester’s work is now complete! Getting registered and acclimated was non-trivial, but the deliverables for the classes I ended up in are below:

1. E59.3001 Seminar (Syllabus)
   • Midterm: Marxist terms, Piaget, and Mauss.
   • Final: Castorides, Anderson and Jameson, and Paul Stoller.
   • Notes: collection of my and other students’ notes.
2. E38.2007 Media Criticism (Syllabus)
   • Spectral Critique in Empire and Protocol, a response to a common form of post-modern critique.
   • Reading and Revolution in Media Sniping, can media sniping still be read as subversive?
3. G93.2211 Socialization (Syllabus)
   • Socialization in Open Technical Communities, how do open and voluntary communities socialize newcomers? Contributions include etymology of “RTFM”, a definition of open communities, findings, and further research questions.
   • Weekly summaries and class notes
4. Independent Study
   • An annotated bibliography (see the complete mindmap XML file or bibtex citations)

This work was done with the Freemind mind mapping tool, a python script that extract bibliographic information from mind maps, that can then be used with OpenOffice.org.

Next, to converge on a S’04 curriculum!