DRAFT — under review
Shells

Week Five: Shells — Aesthetics

[ ENG 6806 // FALL 2026 // WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 ]

Readings: moved into this week for 2026

from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Ch.13 'Ask Me Anything', Star Trek Data quote on humor/QA systems]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Star Trek 'Hello Computer' meme + text on Siri/Alexa understanding limits]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Watson/Jeopardy Ken Jennings 'human loser' quote and answer clues]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Ch.14 'On Understanding', Hofstadter 'barrier of meaning' quote]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Common sense/Allen Institute passage; also unrelated DeepSeek-R1 Nature article]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Ch.16 'Questions, Answers, and Speculations', Hofstadter GEB reference]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book Q&A: 'Will AI result in massive unemployment for humans?']
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book Q&A: 'How terrified should we be about AI?', cites Hofstadter/Kurzweil]
from the 2025 Week 7 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book Q&A: 'unsolved AI problems', closes 'as a thinking human']
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Describes UN Women 'genuine Google searches' campaign discussed in Noble's book intro]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: UN Women 'women shouldn't/cannot' Google autocomplete ad photos from Noble's discussion]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Chapter title page 'A Society, Searching' from Algorithms of Oppression]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book page 24 quote and Figure 1.9 caption from Algorithms of Oppression]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Quotes Alex Halavais on search engines as 'object of faith', from Noble's book]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Quotes Cathy O'Neil/Weapons of Math Destruction as told in Noble's book]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book quote: 'In the ensuing chapters, I continue to probe...' Noble's intro]
from the 2025 Week 10 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 5 [vision: Book section 'The Importance of Google' text from Algorithms of Oppression]