Arendt, Hannah "Civil Disobedience" from Crises of the Republic
Baldwin, James "The Discovery of What It Means To Be An American" from Nobody Knows My Name
Borges, Jorge Luis "The Garden of Forking Paths" from Ficciones
Bush, Vannevar "As We May Think"
Castells, Manuel "The Spirit of Informationalism" from The Rise of the Network Society
Euripides The Bacchae
Gleick, James "Revolution," from Chaos: Making a New Science
Howe, Fanny "Bewilderment"
Kuhn, Thomas Preface & Chapter VI from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Lear, Jonathan Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Rankine, Claudia selection from Citizen: An American Lyric
Stein, Gertrude "Composition as Explanation"