Weekly reading assignments from
previous years:
Week X: Read the following documents on
Community Research, Science Shops, and Democracy and Science: Nature article, Loka article 1, Loka article
2.
You do NOT have to read Loka article1 after the point where it says
"(2) HOW TO ORDER OR DOWNLOAD A COPY..."
Week X: Read the following documents: Liberties with Genes and Third World.
Week X: Read the following series of articles: Sustainable Development
Week X: Read these articles and documents: Follow the Money, Conflict of Interest, Formaldehyde Story, and Faked Discoveries. Optional reading: Elektromanyetik Alanlar ve Insan Sagligi.
Week X: Read
the following pages from the book A. Fausto-Sterling. "Myths of Gender", Basic
Books, New York, 1985: The Biological
Connection, pages 3-12; A Question of Genius, pages 13-60. Also strongly
recommended is the following short article: Iron and Math.
You may also wish to optionally read Sex and Science.
pages 205-222
Week X: Read the following document: Why the future doesn't need us. The following is optional reading: I Love You.
Week X: Read the following article on Artificial Intelligence. If you know Turkish, you may also wish to read the article Yapay Zeka which overlaps with the English article. Also read Love Online and Matrix.
Week X: Read the following pages from the book J Zerzan and A Carnes, eds. "Questioning Technology", New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1991:pages 1-3, 9-12, 22-25, 32, 36-40, 46-60, 67-70, 91-92, 108, 128, 153-158, 163-170, 176, 198.
Week X: Read the following article: Control and Creativity. You may also optionally read The Price of Silence.
Lectures or presentations from previous years:
Week X: Haldun Ozaktas: Perils of Reductionism and Quantification:
FromArtificial Intelligence to Economic Theory.
Week X: Rafet Gurkaynak, "Why is economics not a branch of engineering?".
Week X: Geoff Bowe, "Ancient Greek 'technology' and Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality" (ppt, doc).
Term paper related documents from previous years:
Example term paper
(Note: This is a generic example only; information provided in handouts and
announcements made in class take precedence over this example in matters of
style and content.)
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