A guided reading of selected texts that many consider canon for digital cultural research, mainly targeting students who plan writing a thesis in the digital culture track. The suggested texts will showcase the variety of traditions digital cultural research draws on (science fiction, literature, anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, the arts, religion and more). Through these texts we will explore the concept of the digital as texts, spaces and cultural Geist, and familiarize ourselves with the way alternative ideologies of social and economic organization influenced perceptions of time, space, and identity work in the digital age. This guided reading completes "philosophy of the digital" in the first semester but does not build on it and could be taken separately. Students in the digital culture track require both parts. Cohn institute students can take only one of these semesters and would still need to experience guided reading with another professor in another field of the history & philosophy of science. We meet every 2 weeks in order to allow for reading of the texts. The grade is based on participation in class and submission of a short final essay expressing a personal stance based on a connection between some of the readings. Each semester equals 1 credit.