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Book: Michael Heim 1 Jan 1993
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Heim
Michael Heim, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Oxford University Press, New York 1993
Michael Heim, author of Electric Language, A Philosophical Study in Word Processing (1987), is now known as the 'philosopher of cyberspace'. He has organised various conferences about virtual reality...
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Book: Andrew Ross 1 Jan 1991
Strange Weather
Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits
Ross examines the way in which technocratic elites have set the agenda for public opinion and the challenges to those groups.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Richard Wright 1 Jan 1994
Ross
Andrew Ross, Strange Weather Culture: Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits, Verso (New Left Books), London 1991
Strange Weather is/was the latest attempt to open up the debate on technology and popular culture for cultural scholarship. This project from a group of North American writers tries to look again at...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Josophia Grieve 1 Jan 1994
Welcome to Memorymoo
connect giordano 30bruno30 * Connected *
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Heidegger On-Line
Interview with Michael Heim
Michael Heim has been called the 'philosopher of cyberspace'. Translator of Heidegger and author of 'Electric Language, A Philosophical Study in Word Processing', he has organized various American...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Ford, Glymore, Hayes
Android Epistemology
Forty-six years ago, Alain Turing opened his article Computing machinery and intelligence by contemplating whether or not machines can think. At that time, this consideration must have seemed radical...
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Heijne
Mathilde ter Heijne's For a better World is a virtual essay on some of the public self-immolations to have been carried out in recent decades, illustrated with video footage and the spoken commentary...
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For a better World Buy now!
Mediamatic Foundation (pub), Amsterdam 2002, isbn 90 74728 32 4, English text, 11 euro
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1 Remko Scha 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Voices (1)
Mimesis
The new digital media technologies, which are now being developed, are often imitative technologies. Future generations may end up viewing the twentieth century as the century of abstraction, and the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Tierra
Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World
Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not be directly perceived as a process. With the recent development of...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1993
The Decay of Communication
If the electronic revolution soon succeeds, the world will be an electronic mirror cabinet and every individual a will-less, perfectly cybernetically functioning monad, predicts H.P. Jeudy in his...
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Book: Benjamin Woolley 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Worlds
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality
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Book: Norbert Bolz 1 Jan 1992
Chaos und Simulation
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Book: Michael Wetzel 1 Jan 1991
Die Enden des Buches
oder die Wiederkehr der Schrift
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Book: Avital Ronell 1 Jan 1991
Crack Wars
Literature, Addiction, Mania
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Book: Walter Ong 1 Jan 1988
Orality and Literacy
The Technologizing of the World
Ong pulls together two decades of work by himself and others on the differences between primary oral cultures, those that do not have a system of writing, and chirographic (i.e., writing) cultures to...
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Book: Stan Franklin 1 Jan 1995
Artificial Minds
An encyclopedic but nonetheless compellingly readable overview of the history of Artificial Intelligence.
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Book: Evelyn Fox Keller 1 Jan 1995
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology
The focus of these three essays is the role of language and technology in the progress of genetic science. Drawing on a broad spectrum of theoretical work, Keller shows how scientists often operate...
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Book: Stuart A. Kauffman 1 Jan 1993
Origins of Order
Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Kauffman
Origins of Order
If you ask questions on the origin of species, ecosystems or other complex biological structures, the answers will undoubtedly include the term 'natural selection'. Natural selection, as formulated...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1998
Mulder
Het Twintigste-Eeuwse Lichaam
Arjen Mulder, a scientifically trained biologist, is also a proud essayist who frequently directs his attention towards the domain of the visual arts. His hang-ups, his repertory of biological...
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Book: Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996
Het Twintigste-Eeuwse Lichaam
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Jodi Dean 1 Jan 2001
Multiple Reality 2
Part 2
So, if the Net is not the public sphere, what is it? Is it just a tool or a medium?