Summer Reading List Number 1

I am in the midst of all of these books, but hope to finish them during the summer. I will comment on them periodically. They relate to courses I teach already, such as "Art and Technology" (AHIS 215), and to courses in the works, such as the 300-level courses "Museums and Collecting: The Rhetorics and Rituals of Display" and "Aesthetics and Theories of Vision" (these titles aren't set in stone yet). The following books are in no particular order.

Da Costa, Beatriz, and Kavita Philip, eds. Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and
Technoscience. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2008.

Barker, Emma, ed. Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1999.

Liu, Alan. The Laws of Cool. Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Jones, Caroline A., ed. Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Visual Arts Center; Cambridge, Massachusetts and
London, England: The MIT Press, 2006.