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Overview
If you could construct a perfect community, what would it look like? What sorts of regulations would you enforce? Would your society be a secure compound, with lots of surveillance, bunkers, 'safe rooms,' etc., or would be completely open? How would you decide whether or not you needed to have a secure-compound living?
Readings
CONTROVERSIES
Morris, Stan. "The Limits of Free Speech on the Internet" GigaLaw.com
Universities Struggle with Free Speech, Hate Speech.
Associated Press.
THEORETICAL BASES
The Virtual Panopticon by David Engberg
Foucault a-gogo: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Foucault
Reversing the Panopticon -- Deborah Natsios and John Young -- August 2001
Fish, Stanley. "Sauce for the Goose" in The Trouble with Principle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. trans.Annette Lavers. NY: Hill and Wang, 1972.
MUSIC
A Response to Tipper Gore's Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Environment
A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States
Mike Nappa, "It's in the Mix: Music and Your Teenager"
FILM & TELEVISION
Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross, 1998)
LITERATURE -- SHORT STORIES & OTHER PROSE
Kafka, Franz
"In the Penal Colony" (1919)
Young, Karl. "Time and the Mail Art Network"
Anderson, Hans Christian
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier"
POETRY
Agha Shahid Ali (terror / repression)
"I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror"
from "A Nostalgist's View of America"
William Wordsworth
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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