Planetology

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DELANDA, Manuel, “Matter Matters” – Article Series in Domus magazine, also online on Google Docs.

DELANDA, Manuel, “Cities and Nations” in A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity, Continuum, 2006

STERLING, Bruce, “Meet the Spime”, “A Synchronic Society” in Shaping Things, Mediawork, MIT Press, 2005

HAYLES, Katherine, “Connecting the Quantum Dots, Nanotechscience and Culture” in Nanoculture, Implications of the New Technoscience, Intellect Ltd, 2004

VINGE, Vernor, Rainbow’s End (several excerpts), Tor Science Fiction, 2007

EASTERLING, Keller, “Comtemplation: Error” and “Contemplation: Pirate” in Enduring Innocence, MIT Press, 2007

EASTERLING, Keller, “Subdvision Products”, in Organization Space, MIT Press 2001

APPADURAI, Arjun, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology” in Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota Press, 1996

VIRILIO, Paul, “Grey Ecology”

BANHAM, Reyner: “Megastructures: Urban Futures of the recent past”

JOHNSON, Steven, “Emergence”, Scribner, 2002

BALL, Philip, The Self-Made Tapestry, Oxford University Press, 2001

BALL, Philip, Made to Measure, Princeton University Press, 1999

GALLOWAY, Alexander, Protocol: How Control exists after Decentralization
MIT Press, 2004

GALLOWAY, Alexander, and THACKER, Eugene, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks, University of Minnesota Press, 2007

FULLER, Buckminster, “World Game” in Critical Path, St. Martin’s Press, 1981

ALLEN, Stan, Landform Building, Lars Muller Publishers 2011

Living in the Endless City, Phaidon Press, 2011

Endless City, Phaidon Press, 2011

AMIN, Ash, and THRIFT, Nigel, Cities, Polity, 2002

GALLOWAY, Alexander, and THACKER, Eugene, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks, University of Minnesota Press, 2007

HERBERT, Frank, Dune
ELLSWORTH &KRUSE Ed., Making The Geologic Now

BALLARD, J.G. excerpts from Crystal World, Drowned World
TRIGG, Dylan, The Real Cape Kennedy

WATTS, Peter, The Things, The Island
HANSON, Robert, The Rapacious Hardscrapple Frontier
NEGARESTANI, Reza, Cyclonopedia, excerpts
STROSS, Charles, How Low Power Can We Go
WITMORE, M., Massive Addressability
DAVIES, Paul, Eerie Silence
DE GARIS, Hugo, X-Tech
BENFORD, Greg, Across the Sea of Suns, excerpts
LEM, Stanislaw, Solaris,  excerpts
FERRIS, Timothy, Life Beyond Earth, excerpts
BESTER, Alfred, Stars my Destination
HOLT, Terrence, In the Valley of the Kings, excerpts
SCHROEDER, Karl,  essay on thalience
http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/thalience
DELANDA, Manuel, Non-Organic Life
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/473077/delanda%20nonorganic%20life.pdf

Additional Readings (more to be provided through links in online page):

MAAS, Winny, “Space Fighter”
Appadurai, Arjun, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology”
Bataille, George, “The Accursed Share”
Johnson, Stephen, “Emergence”, “Interface Culture”
Ball, Philip, “The Self-Made Tapestry”, “Made to Measure”
Galloway, Alexander, “Protocol” and “Gaming: “Essays on Algorithmic Culture”; “The Unworkable Interface”
Novak, Marcos, “Transphysical City”, “Transarchitectures and Hypersurfaces” (articles link will be provided)
AD (Architecture Design magazine) on “Digital Cities”
HUBLER, MASSUMI and other, “Interact or Die: there is drama in the networks”
FERNANDEZ-GALIANO, Luis, “Fire and memory”
JAMESON, Fredric, “Archeologies of the Future”
VIRILIO, Paul, “Grey Ecology”
TSCHUMI, Bernard, “Event Cities”
“Space, Time, Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism”. Editors: Friedrich Von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Boettger.
BANHAM, Reyner: “Megastructures: Urban Futures of the recent past”
SADLER, Simon, “The Situationist City”
DOXIADIS, C.A., Anthropopolis, W.W. Norton Company, New York, 1975
FULLER, Buckminster, Synergetics, McMillan Publishing, 1975
FULLER, Buckminster, Ideas and Integrities, Collier Books, 1969

CAPOLINO Filippo (ed.), “Theory and Phenomena of Metamaterials”
FLAKE, Gary, “The Computational Beauty of Nature”
SASS, Stephen L., The Substance of Civilization
ADDINGTON, Michelle, SCHODEK, Daniel, “Smart Materials and Technologies”
McCarthy, William, “Hacking Matter”

CORE FILMS:
Powers of Ten, Eames
2001
Dune
Nostalgia for the Light
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Code 46
Andromeda Strain

Recommended Films:
Contact
Alien
Avatar
Wall-E
Event Horizon
Mission to Mars
Crash
Paprika
Blade Runner
The Fountain
Koyanisqatsi
Ghost in the Shell (all)

Stalker
Playtime
La Jetee
Spirited Away
My neighbor Totoro
Howl’s Moving Castle
Terminator, T2, T3