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Full Reading List: Part 2
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Week
7: The Politics of
Consciousness, Altered States, & Base-line Consciousness
Readings:
R.D.
Laing “The Politics of Experience” Chapter 6, Transcendental
Experience
Arnold
M. Ludwig “Altered States of Consciousness” (in Altered
States of Consciousness Ed. Charles Tart. P18-33.
Thomas
B. Roberts “Multistate Education: Metacognitive
Implications of the Mindbody Psychotechnologies” (in Journal.
of Transpersonal Psychology 1989, Vol. 21, No. 1)
U.S.
Supreme Court: UNITED STATES v. STANLEY, 483 U.S. 669 (1987). Excerpts. Full
text.
Neil
Munro “Brain Politics”(from
The National Journal Feb.3, 2001)
“MKULTRA: Joint Hearing Before The Select Committee On Intelligence And
The Subcommittee On Health And Scientific Research Of The Committee On Human
Resources, United States Senate.” Excerpts.
Full
text.
Arthur
Allen “readin’, ritin’ and ritalin” (Salon
July 97)
Thomas
S. Szasz, M.D. "Chemical Straitjackets For Children"
Discussion Questions
Additional
Web Resources
Week
8: Drugs:
A Highly Opi(nion)ated Battle
Readings:
Jacques
Derrida “The Rhetoric of Drugs” (in Points…Interviews,
1974-1994)
Huston
Smith “Do Drugs Have Religious Import?” The Journal of Philosophy,
Vol LXI, No. 18, September 17, 1964
Charles
H. Whitebread "The History of the Non-medical Use of
Drugs in the United States" (Vol. 1, Issue No. 3 pages 29-64 (Fall 2000)
‘A
Psychedelicist’ “Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right”
Discussion Questions
Additional
Web Resources
Week
9:
Technology & the Mind I
Readings:
Alan
W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr. “Rewiring the Mind” (Chapter 8 of The
Mind Manipulators)
Wrye
Sententia “Brain Fingerprinting: From Databodies to Databrains” (in Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol.
2, Issue No. 3, 2001, 31-46).
Laurence
Tribe “Electronic Monitoring and Neurological Manipulation” in Channeling Technology Through Law 304-323.
Steve
Kirsch “Identifying terrorists before they strike by using computerized
knowledge assessment (CKA)”
Sharon
Begley “Your Brain on
Religion: Mystic visions or brain circuits at work?”
(Newsweek
May 7, 2001). Available at: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neurotheo/neuronewswk.htm
Discussion Questions
Additional
Web Resources
Week
10:
Technology & the Mind II: Social Implications
Readings:
Sadie
Plant “Information War in the Age of Dangerous Substances” (in
Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol.
2, Issue No. 1 pages 23-43 (2000)).
US v.
Dr Sell Forced Drugging Case:
Kelly
Patricia O'Meara.
“Federal Court OKs Forced Drugging” (Article in Insight) Available at:
Dr.
Charles Thomas Sell’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court
of the United States
Brief
Amicus Curiae of the Center
for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics in Support of the Petition for
Certiorari
Alan
W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr. “Asserting the Mind” (Chapter 12 of
The Mind Manipulators)
James
C. O'Leary “An Analysis of the Legal Issues Surrounding the Forced Use of
Ritalin: Protecting a Child's Right to ‘Just Say No’” (from New
England Law Review V27#4, Summer 1993).
Discussion Questions
Additional
Web Resources
Week
11:
Reading the Mind: Looking Out, Looking In–Surveillance Technologies
Readings:
Michel
Foucault “Panopticism” (from Discipline
& Punish: The Birth of the Prison)
David
Lyon “New Directions in Theory” (Chapter 7 of Surveillance
Society)
Brandon
Mercer, Tech Live
“Can
Computers Read Your Mind?” (Article, May 29, 2002)
Web reading: ACLU
“Drug Testing: A Bad Investment” Executive Summary
Discussion
Questions
Additional
Web Resources
Week 12:
Reality Models
Readings:
Robert
Anton Wilson “Creative Agnosticism”
Journal
of Cognitive Liberties Vol. 2, Issue No. 1 pages 61-84.
Ine
Gevers “Subversive Tactics of Neurologically Diverse Cultures” Journal
of Cognitive Liberties Vol. 1, Issue No. 2 pages 43-60 (Spring/Summer
2000).
Erik
Davis
“This is Your Brain on Buddha: Dharma and Neuroscience”
Appeared in Feed, June 23, 1999;
also available at: http://www.techgnosis.com/brain.html
Jean
Baudrillard “Simulacra
and Simulations” (Excerpt from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings,
ed. Mark Poster).
U.S.
Supreme Court “Employment Div., Ore. Dept. Of Human Res. V. Smith.”
Excerpts. Full
text.
Discussion Questions
Additional
Web Resources
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