Syllabus

1. The Panopticon
   1. Foucault, Bentham and the Panopticon: Read the excerpt from Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment
   2. Garden of Eden: Discipline or Punishment?
   3. The Internet and Panopticon: Pagerank
2. Cosmology
   1. Measuring the Universe
      1. Earth, Moon, Sun
   2. Location in the Universe
      • Heliocentrism: Christians, Jews, and Copernicus
      • The Galileo Controversy
   3. Where is our Universe?
      • Multiverses:Tegmark Scientific American article
      • Jewish and Christian commentary, Smolin
   4. Life in the Universe
      • Drake Equation
3. Earth
   1. Life Forms and Geology
   2. Neptunism-Plutonism Controversy; Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism
   3. The discovery of extinction: Cuvier, Lyell and DarwinBuffon
   4. zKolbert New Yorker article
   5. Excerpts from Hutton, Cuvier, Lyell, Humboldt and Darwin
   6. Geological Science
      1. Article on origins of scientific geology
      2. Continental Drift
   7. Mapping
      1. Mercator and Topology
      2. Continents
      3. Politics of Mapping
      4. Voyaging
      5. Mastering Longitude
4. Man Made Spaces
   1. Sacred Spaces
   2. Healthy and Sick Spaces
   3. Public Spaces
   4. Home Spaces