CSE 87C Readings

CSE 87C: Computational Narratology

Readings

Due Week 2:
- The Literary Mind, Mark Turner, pages 3-9.
- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany. Prologue, pages 42-48.
- Hotline Healers, Gerald Vizenor, pages 4-5.
Due Week 3:
- Notes on narrative, Joseph Goguen.
- "Myth Today," in Mythologies, Roland Barthes.
- Nova Express, William Burroughs, "The Death Dwarf in the Street," pages 74-79.
Due Week 4:
- Notes on Basic Semiotics, by Joseph Goguen (in CSE 171 class notes).
- More than Cool Reason, George Lakoff and Mark Turner, Preface, page 6.
- Reread "Myth Today" (as above).
- Barthes, Chapter 3, pages 16-25.
- What is a Game?, by Fox Harrell.
Due Week 5:
- Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud. Chapter 4.
- Barthes, Chapter 5, pages 34-42.
- "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin," William S. Burroughs, 1961, in New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT.
Due Week 6:
- Barthes, Chapter 6, pages 43-51.
- "The Garden of Forking Paths", Jorge Luis Borges, 1941, in New Media Reader (as above).
- Optional: Speaking in Djinn by Fox Harrell, in ctheory.net.
Due Week 7:
- Barthes, Chapter 7, pages 52-60.
- Inside Electronic Game Design, Arnie Katz with Laurie Yates.
- Optional: Algebra of Identity by Fox Harrell; text of lecture given at the Powering Up / Powering Down conference, organized by Teknika Radica.
Due Week 8:
- Barthes, Chapter 9, only pages 73-74 on hypertext.
- "The recombinant history apparatus presents: Terminal Time", S. Domike, Michael Mateas, and P. Vanouse. In Narrative Intelligence, Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers (eds).
Due Week 9:
- We will discuss game theory this week; I will try to find a good online source.
- Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud. Chapters 5 and 6.
- Optional: "Steps towards a Design Theory for Virtual Worlds" by Joseph Goguen. This is currently a draft of a paper in preparation as a chapter for a book; any comments would be welcomed.
- Optional: "The Virtualisation of Art Practice: Body Knowledge and the Engineering World View" by Simon Penny, Director of the Art Computation and Engineering program at UC Irvine and a very well known robotics artist.
Week 10:
- Presentation of student projects.

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