DTC356: Information Structures

Course Texts

Book cover for Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger, featuring a dandelion dispersing into digital pixels, with the subtitle “The Power of the New Digital Disorder.”

Everything is Miscellaneous

by David Weinberger
Book cover for Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff, subtitled “What Categories Reveal about the Mind,” featuring bold black-and-white typography and a library notice stamp.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

by George Lakoff
Cover page for “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner, originally published in American Anthropologist, 1956, volume 58(3), pages 503–507.

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

by Horace Miner
Cover of a study guide titled “#nextchapter” with colorful overlapping speech bubbles. The guide is for Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commandments for a Digital Age.

Program Or Be Progammed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

by Douglas Rushkoff
Book cover for Motel of the Mysteries with white stylized text on a black background.

Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay