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Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling

Here it is. Prepare to discuss.

The Final Project!

1. a2k (access to knowledge)

2. acceleration

3. accelerationalism

4. accountability

5. agency

6. amateur

7. analog

8. artificial intelligence

9. artificial imbecillence

10. auteur

11. author

12. authoritarianism

13. authority

14. basic income guarantee

15. biopiracy

16. blog

17. blogipelago

18. blogosphere

19. broadcast

20. "California Ideology"

21. canon

22. citizen

22. citizen journalism

23. code

24. collaboration

25. common goods

26. commons

27. commonsense

28. consensus

29. consensus science

30. consent

31. control

32. copyright

33. creative commons

34. credentialization

35. critique

36. crypto-anarchy

37. culture

38. culture industry

39. cybernetics

40. cybernetic totalism

41. cyberspace

42. cyborg

43. democracy

44. democratization

45. digirati

46. digital

47. digital divide

48. dissensus

49. diversity

50. elite

51. enclosure

52. end-to-end principle (e2e)

53. enframing

54. enhancement

55. eugenics

56. excludability

57. externality

58. fair use

59. filtering

60. finitude

61. free software

62. "The Future"

63. futurity

64. futurology

65. genomic enclosure

66. gift economy

67. information

68. industrial model

69. liberal subjectivity

70. linking

71. mapping

72. mass culture

73. mass mediation

74. media

75. micro-payments

76. Moore's Law

77. negative liberty

78. neoliberalism

79. Net Neutrality

80. Netroots

81. network

82. node

83. objectivity

84. open source

85. participation

86. panopticon

87. peer

88. peer to peer (p2p)

89. planetarity

90. popular

91. post-humanist

92. precarity

93. precarization

94. privacy

95. private property

96. professional

97. progress

98. propaganda

99. prostheses as culture/culture as prostheses

100. public

101. publication

102. public good

103. public relations

104. reductionism

105. relational

106. representative

107. retro-futurism

108. revolution

109. rivalrousness

110. robotics

111. secrecy

112. security

113. sharing

114. Singularity

115. social

116. social aesthetics

117. social networks

118. socialization

119. sousveillance

120. spectacle

121. spontaneous order

122. stakeholder

123. surveillance

124. technocracy

125. techno-fetishism

126. technology

127. technoscience

128. techno-utopianism

129. "Tragedy of the Commons"

130. transparency

131. viral

For your Final Project you will generate a kind of personal conceptual mapping of the subject matter of the whole course. In order to produce this map, you will need to draw on readings and notes over the course of the whole term. Many connections and problems will likely become clear to you for the first time in making this map. Before you make your choices you should spend some time dwelling over the whole list above, since what may at first seem obvious choices often give way to different questions and concerns once you give them more thought.

The assignment is quite straightforward:

[one] Choose forty-four Keywords from the list above.

[two] Organize your chosen Keywords into three separate, conceptually connected, sets. You can use any criteria that seems useful to you to organize these sets. The only rule is that no resulting set can contain fewer than eight Keywords.

[three] Each of the three sets should be given a unique title or heading and an introductory paragraph (no longer than a single page) that elaborates the criteria governing your choices as to what would be included in that set.

[four] Once you have organized your three sets in this way, briefly define each one of the Keywords you have included in each set in your own words. Ideally, your definitions should be as clear and as concise as possible. These definitions should be a matter of a sentence (or at most two), NOT a paragraph or more. They really are just definitions, not essays or lengthy explanations. It should be clear from your definitions why each of the Keywords in each of the three sets are conceptually connected to each other, but it is also crucial that no terms within any set are treated by you as synonymous, and that your definitions distinguish Keywords from one another clearly (even if the resulting distinctions are sometimes matters of nuance).

[five] Once you have defined all these Keywords, provide a short quotation (feel free to edit and prune to keep your chosen citations properly pithy) from one of the texts we have read this term to accompany each one of your definitions. The quotation you choose can be a definition you found helpful in crafting your own definition, it can be an example or illustration you found especially clarifying, it can a matter of contextualization, framing, or history that you found illuminating, it can even be something you disagreed with so strongly it helped you understand better what you really think yourself.

Obviously, there are endless ways of organizing these sets, defining their Keywords, distinguishing them from one another, and connecting them up to the texts we have read. What matters here is that you follow the rules of the exercise, not that you arrive at some single "right answer" you may fancy I have in mind.

Everyone's map will likely be quite dramatically different from everyone else's. That's a feature, not a bug.

Many students might also find it useful to introduce additional elements to their final projects -- illustration, cartography, collage, AV supplements, sculpture, games, and so on. None of these are required but students are welcome to make this final project their own, to introduce additional formal and experimental dimensions that help you come to terms with the course material as a whole in your own way once the basic requirements are satisfied.