Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Marshall McLuhan provides the foundational framework for understanding how media technologies reshape perception and social organization, particularly the shift from print to electronic culture and its effects on human consciousness and temporality. The course invokes McLuhan's media theory to ground critical analysis of how contemporary telecommunication tools and meta-environments mediate aesthetic experience and embodiment differently than mechanical-age perspectival logic did. His work enables the seminar to historicize current human-computer interaction as an extension of longer transformations in how technology structures consciousness and spatial-temporal experience.

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Claudia Jacques

Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

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Duchamp’s desire to exchange with the spectator is today the foundation of any and every human-computer interaction. The advent of new telecommunication tools has been quickly adding new possibilities for rendering aesthetic meaning and int…To ground a critical interrogation of narratives of embodiment and the different mediation capabilities of the meta-environment requires another brief examination of recent history. Marshall McLuhan (1964) provided one starting point from w…The advent of the mechanical age gave rise to enhanced aesthetic perceptions of space and time intrinsically connected along a continuum and represented by linear perspective positioning the viewer as an observer outside the frame and exper…

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Jean Baudrillard

The Evil Demon of Images

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Henceforth, “everyone knows”, everyone has trembled before the extermination -- a sure sign that “it” will never happen again. But in effect what is thus exorcised so cheaply, at the cost of a few tears, will never recur because it is prese…For us the medium, the image medium, has imposed itself between the real and the imaginary, upsetting the balance between the two, with a kind of fatality which has its own logic. I call this a fatal process in the sense that there is a def…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Readings: Claudia Jacques, Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience (Duchamp’s Creative Act and Cybersemiotics) Notes on À bruit secret: on Duchamp, Cybernetics, and Organized Crime Additional Reading/Primary Docu…

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