Micah White is a former editor of Adbusters magazine and co-created the international meme Occupy Wall Street. Influenced by philosophical ideas, political and cultural movements, environmentalism, and technological innovations, White inspires seemingly minor contributors to harness the power of information systems and participate in the creation and direction of culture.
White’s lecture The Future of Protest explores how visual culture plays an important role in social change through critically evaluating activist events like Occupy Wall Street. White speaks to the innovative position of artists and designers in the current environment of cultural and political civic engagement. White calls for creative re-imagination of how we relate to the world and others.
MICAH WHITE’S SUGGESTED READINGS
The suggested reading list includes various reading and media recommendations provided by the lecturer. This list of materials can include projects authored by the lecturer or others, and provides further insight into the guest’s sources of inspiration and additional context surrounding the artist/scholar/designer’s work and practice. This list is shared with RMCAD students and faculty and is archived on the website for academic integration and research opportunities. The physical materials are archived in the RMCAD campus library and the VASD Program archive.
Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy by John Arquilla and David F. Ronfeldt
Book – 2001
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
Book – 2013
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Book – 2003
The Army of the Republic by Stuart Cohen
Book – 2010
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Radical Thinkers) by Simon Critchley
Book – 2013
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
Book – 2009
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Book – 2007
The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger
Book – 1982
In the Pond: A Novel by Jin Ha
Book – 1998
Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge, and Why We Must by Kalle Lasn
Book – 2000
Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn
Book – 2006
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Le Guin, Ursula K
Book – 1974
It Can’t Happen Here: a Novel by Sinclair Lewis
Book – 2005
The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Book – 1956
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Book – 1938
The Republic by Plato
Book – 380 B.C.E
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Book – 1929
Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution? by Michel Serres
Book – 2010
The Insurgent Barricade by Mark Traugott
Book – 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
Book – 2005
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Žižek
Book – 2008
The Debacle, 1870-71 by Émile Zola
Book – 1978
Germinal by Émile Zola
Book – 1885
A Man For All Seasons by Fred Zinnemann
Film – 1966
FernGully: The Last Rainforest by Bill Kroyer
Film – 1992
The Edukators by Hans Weingartner
Film – 2004
Free Rainer by Hans Weingartner
Film – 2007
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Ken Loach
Film – 2006
Carlos by Olivier Assayas
Television Mini Series – 2010
The Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel
Film – 2008
The Milagro Beanfield by Robert Redford
Film – 1988
The Weather Underground by Sam Green
Film – 2002
V For Vendetta by James McTeigue
Film – 2005
Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón
Film – 2006
Black Mirror “A Waldo Moment” by Bryn Higgins
TV Show – 2013
Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits” by Euros Lyn
TV Show – 2013
