Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).

3. "the theory of the natural selection of successive, slight, but profitable modifications."

4. media evolution

5. evolution of media artifacts

6. evolution of media activities

7. evolution of media arrangements

8. evolution of media arrangements

10. "Day by day [-] the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life.”

11. “ The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants”

14. ” In the context of life, we do not want to be tied uniquely to carbon-based life, or life-as-we-know-it, but we also do not want life-as-could-be to be anything at all. The challenge lies precisely on finding the right amounts of systemhood and thinghood, as well as the interactions between the two, necessary for a good theory of life, real or artificial.”