GATTACA

Selections from Gulliver’s Travels

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_aTgxRkpieGwxcnc/edit?usp=sharing

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Excerpts from Amazing Stories

Choose some excerpts from this site:

http://www.pulpmags.org/amazingstories_page.html

I suggest reading bits of issues, as they tend to be overly long, then reporting back here with your findings.

F. T. Marinetti: “The Futurist Manifesto”

Here's a link to an archived version of the text:

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html

Karel Čapek: Rossum’s Universal Robots

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_cncyd2VtSVIyaHM/edit?usp=sharing

Isaac Asimov: “Robbie” from I, Robot

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_bXlVMWdaRnQxSDg/edit?usp=sharing

Isaac Asimov: “Liar!” from I, Robot

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_OFFhSUVPdl9SVFk/edit?usp=sharing

Ridley Scott: Blade Runner

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby: Fantastic 4 #1

Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Don Heck & Jack Kirby: Tales of Suspense #39

Kurt Vonnegut: “Harrison Bergeron”

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild”

http://boblyman.net/englt392/texts/bloodchild.pdf

Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Comet

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15210/15210-h/15210-h.htm#Chapter_X

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Images

Parliament/Funkadelic & Sun Ra

William Gibson: Neuromancer

Neil Harbisson: "I Listen to Color" & Beardyman's "Polyphonic Me"

Harbisson's TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color#t-62901

Harbisson's Huffington Post Interview:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/cyborg-neil-harbisson-interview_n_2745307.html

Beardyman's "Polyphonic Me" TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/beardyman_the_polyphonic_me?language=en

Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" (RECOMMENDED/OPTIONAL):
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway/articles/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto/

The Wachowskis: The Matrix