Vannevar Bush
wrote this article for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
A slightly different version appeared later in Life
magazine. Bush is credited with the invention of hypertext. Also
available from the
Atlantic Monthly server.
An Examination
of What Has Been Accomplished and What Remains to Be Done. A Symposium
at MIT, 1995. Abstracts of papers and biographies of presenters
and some remains of the event -- most interesting is
"A Photographic Appreciation" of Vannevar Bush and his inventions
Time 100 - March 29, 1999 Vol. 153. No. 12. Special issue: Time
100/ Scientists & Thinkers of the 20th Century. [Free article has been
removed. This link goes to abstract where you can purchase the article.]
A FEED magazine
article which annotates Bush's original essay, with hypertext contributions
from a "panel of leading writers and critics, including hypertext
pioneer Michael Joyce, Release 1.0's Esther Dyson, and Wen
Stephenson, editor of The Atlantic Monthly's Web site, Atlantic
Unbound."
Articles on Barbie,
slash fan fiction, McLuhan, and more, interviews with and by Dery, and
extended promotions for Dery's books with excerpts. Full text of his
pamphlet Culture jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire
of Signs.
UC Irvine Chancellor's
Distinguished Fellow A Selective Bibliography: The UCI Libraries January
11, 13, 18, & 20, 2000 Prepared by Ellen Broidy, History Bibliographer,
The UCI Libraries
"Forget the
mainstream. As cultural pathologists like Mark Dery argue, the clues
to deciphering millennial America may lie at its extremes." By
Scott Stossel (article from The Atlantic Online, April 22, 1999)
by Franciso Varela in a special
issue of the Stanford Humanities Review devoted to the
exploration of convergences and dissonances between Artificial Intelligence
and the Humanities. "Heinz von Foerster is the real architect of what can
be called second-order cybernetics, which deals with the pervasive role
of self-reference in all these domains, including the inevitable second-order
observation of the observer."
Heinz von Foerster's opening address for the International Conference,
Systems and Fam ily Therapy: Ethics, Epistemology, New Methods, held in
Paris, France, October 4th, 1990.
"Heinz von Foerster, a physicist and a philosopher who was an early
leader in the field of information theory, died on Oct. 2 at his home in
Pescadero, Calif. He was 90."
"This paper will compare two recent approaches to the problem of
finding a place for scientific visualisation as a cultural artifact. Vivian
Sobchack's reading of Chaos Culture in her 1990 Artforum article
gives a cultural critique of chaos imagery as a postmodernist metaphor in
the worst sense, of a refusal of bodily scale and the historical situation.
In Donna Haraway's recent work she tries to construct a way of contesting
scientific knowledge or stories for the creation of public meanings without
sacrificing scientific values. " --Richard Wright Digital Imaging Group
London Guildhall University
Lucy Tatman, European Journal of Women's Studies: Feb. 2003,
10:1 - available to U. Iowa people electronically. May be available to
other university libraries via EBSCOhost. "…This article explores
the possibility that Haraway's cyborg is a saviour-figure, made partially
in the image of a transcendent God. It suggests that cyborgs do have an
origin story, and that their story is inseparably linked to the theological
development of Heilsgeschichte, or salvation history, which is itself linked,
arguably, to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution…"
By Robert M. Young. "This began life as a talk given at Nottingham Polytechnic,
in which I attempted to re-think the concept of ideology in the light
of social constructivism, especially the astonishing achievement of Donna
Haraway in Primate Visions. Much revised, it appeared
in Science
as Culture (no. 15) 3:165-207,1992 " (Microsoft
Word version)
by William Grassie published in the June 1996 issue of Zygon.
"This article is a close reading of two essays by Donna Haraway
on feminist philosophy, the biophysical sciences, and critical social
theory"
Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist
Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs. By Donna Haraway "This is an early version
of Donna Haraway's influential essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology,
and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." The complete
version appears in Haraway's book Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991): 149-181."
PDF version
Professor Laura Sells (Louisian State U) calls this her "Ode to Donna
Haraway." Includes an annotatedbibliography, links to other online Haraway
sources and related articles.
Homeostasis, Reflexivity, and the Foundations of Cybernetics "Virtual
reality did not spring, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, full-blown
from the mind of William Gibson. It has encoded within it a complex history
of technological innovations, conceptual developments, and metaphorical
linkages that are crucially important in determining how it will develop
and what it is taken to signify."
In New Orleans Review, 18 (1991) and was reprinted in Realism
and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science,
Literature, and Culture edited by George Levine. "… it now
seems the aspect of science most in need of explanation is its power to
arrive at apparently ahistorical and transcultural generalizations"
In Culture Machine 5 (2003). "In the last few years, electronic
literature has moved beyond the print-based assumptions characteristic
of first-generation
texts
into
second-generation
works that increasingly exploit the capabilities offered by digital environments."
PostModern Culture 10.2 (2000). "Using only the characteristics of
the digital computer, what is it possible to say about electronic hypertext
as a literary medium? "
From Configurations 1.1 (1993) 147-170, which may not be
viewable to non-subscribing institutions. Hayles considers "how the body
is constructed within postmodern discourse as an immaterial informational
structure. . ."
A special issue of Modern Fiction Studies (43.3, Fall 1997) edited
by Hayles. Authors include: Michael Joyce, Jaishree Odin, Sue-Ellen Case,
Stuart Molthrop, Marie-Laure Ryan, Thomas C. Foster, Joseph Tabbi, Robert
Markley and N. Katherine Hayles.
at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. Includes a comprehensive bibliography, a biographic sketch,
and a dozen articles.
Originally published in P. Watzlawick (Ed.), Die Erfundene Wirklichkeit.
Munich: Piper, 1981. Author's translation in P. Watzlawick (Ed.), The
Invented Reality. New York: Norton, 1984.
"The author maintains that there can be no understanding without reflection. Reflection is induced by verbalization and can therefore be encouraged by fostering conversation. Ceccato's notion of 'operational awareness' will be shown to be relevant to teaching and compatible with Piaget's theoretical model."
(Atlantic Unbound, October 1997) In addition to the article
on Johnson and his book, this site features several excerpts from the
book, an email exchange between Blume and Johnson and reaction from readers.
In this Feed magazine article, Steven Johnson reprints the last
section of the last chapter of his book Interactive Culture and
follows it with "a special Loop discussion area" where the conversation
continues. You will also find several links to other articles in the inserts.
The entire book is here. Kevin Kelly is the Executive Editor of Wired
magazine. Kelly's book describes how techology is becoming biological,
decentralized and distributed.
"from
the AIGA "Collison!" conference in April Y2K examines the problem
of where media content comes from, and who will pay for it - and
how communities and economies can be built around content."
by Brenda
Laurel, Tim Oren, and Abbe Don.
Keywords: multimedia interface, media integration, cross-media links,
interface agents, guides, point of view, narrative
"Cultural
change accelerates as the children of the Atari generation get their
pudgy little hands on media we never thought of. Technology literacy
evolves into a subconscious expectation that things work and are
fun. After decades of thinking we knew what that meant, game designers
suddenly find themselves facing an explosion of diversity in terms
of both the technological landscape and the potential audience for
interactive entertainment." Speech delivered at The Interactive
Frictions conference in Los Angeles in 1999
The Freud
Web; The Religion in England Web; The Victorian Web; Cyberspace,
Hypertext, and Critical Theory; and Postcolonial and Postmperial
Fiction Web
"I will
approach the problem of "realism" in 3D computer animation starting
from the arguments advanced in film theory in regard to cinematic
realism. First, I review the key accounts which situate the realism
of film in the histories of cinematic technology and style. The
next section tests themodels suggested in these accounts on the
history of computer animation and computer graphics research. The
third section shifts emphasis, considering realism in computer animation
as an effect of subject matter."
"Perhaps only
the artists from post-communist societies are ready to recognize
that in an information society the noise is as meaningful as the
signal, and that the nature of technology is that it does not work
as it supposed to."
"In contrast
to modern literature, theater, and cinema, which are built around
the psychological tensions between characters, these computer games
return us to the ancient forms of narrative where the plot is driven
by the spatial movement of the main hero, traveling through distant
lands to save the princess, to find the treasure, to defeat the
Dragon, and so on."
Published in:
Photography After Photography. Exhibition catalog. German, 1995.
"I will present the logic of the digital image as paradoxical;
radically breaking with older modes of visual representation while
at the same time reinforcing these modes. I will demonstrate this
paradoxical logic by examining two questions: alleged physical differences
between digital and film-based representation of photographs and
the notion of realism in computer generated synthetic photography."
By Lloyd Fell, and David Russell, who, along with Alan Stewart, edited
Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding, a book of papers about
Maturana's ideas.
The keynote
lecture at the first stop of Ted Nelson's 1990 World Tour, the 'Multimedia
90' conference, held in Linkping, Sweden on September 10th., 1990.
Published in Boston University Law Review, 7/24/2001. "This essay … is
an attempt to show that the way we stipulate the conditions of the
online world may be decisive for whether or not
trust is achieved."
Published in IEEE Computer, March 2001. "Its mystery lies
in seeing values as part of technology … we must grapple with
the new demands that changes wrought by the presence and use of
information technolgy have placed on values and moral principles.
Published in The Information Society, 16(3):1-17, 2000.
"The broader debate about the dual possibilities of media: to be
democratizing or to be colonized by specialized interests at the
expense of the publich good, inspires and motivates this article
on the politics of search engines."
Published in Law and Philosophy, 17: 559-596, 1998.
"I argue that information and communications technology, by facilitating
surveillance, by vastly enhancing the collection, storage, and analysis
of information, by enabling profiling, data mining and aggregation,
has significantly altered the meaning of public information"
Written with Batya Friedman and published in ACM Transactions
on Information Systems July 1996, 330-347. "Preexisting
bias has it roots in social institutions, practices, and attitudes.
Technical bias arises from technical constraints or considerations.
Emergent bias arises in a context of use."
This essay
was first published in the anthology Cyberspace:
First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991): 81-118. "Since so much of a culture's
knowledge is passed on by means of stories, I will begin by retelling
a few boundary stories about virtual cultures. "
Sociologist
Sherry Turkle explores the emotional and intellectual connections
to virtual pets, chat rooms and other products of the computer age
--Marguerite Holloway,Scientific American, April 1998.
Interview
with Sherry Turkle Katie Hafner,The New York Times, June
18, 1998. "The computer is a marginal or boundary object, a
mind that is not quite a mind; it does not really "think," yet it
is in some sense a psychological machine"
In the MUDs,
the projections of self are engaged in a resolutely postmodern context.
There are parallel narratives in the different rooms of the MUD;
one can move forward or backward in time. The cultures of Tolkien,
Gibson, and Madonna coexist and interact. Authorship is not only
displaced from a solitary voice, it is exploded.
Ideas about
Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation. "The answers to
the classical Piagetian question of how children think about life
are being renegotiated as they are posed in the context of computational
objects that explicitly present themselves as exemplars of "artificial
life."
Profile of
Sherry Turkle Alex Pham,The Boston Globe, February 24, 1999."One
of her recurrent messages: the Internet will not replace stores,
boutiques, shopping malls, and supermarkets. Instead, browsing on-line
will only whet people's appetite for the real thing."
By Herb Brody
from Technology Review, 1996. "[C]yberspace takes the fluidity of
identity that is called for in everyday life and raises it to a
higher power: people come to see themselves as the sum of their
distributed presence on all the windows they open on the screen.
"
An interview
by Robert Atkins. "The Net dramatizes, concretizes, makes it more
urgent to confront what's true anyway. I'm alway interested in the
question of what might have been. If the Internet had come along
50 years ago, we surely wouldn't have this mass movement of gender-switching.
It's a matter of resonance, of moving things to a higher order."
The
American Prospect, no. 31, March-April
1997. "The uncertainty about what students (and the rest of
us) need to know reflects a more general cultural change in the
understanding of computer"
"Computers
and communication networks are not drugs. They are complex media
that different people (and different social and political groups
for that matter) use in different ways. " See Also Interview
2 and Interview
3
In The
Science Studies Reader,Mario Biagioli (ed.). New York:
Routledge, 1999. "Here I present examples of how engaging with
a variety of computational objects (interfaces, virtual communities,
and simulation games) provides material for reshowing categories
of knowing, of identity, and of what is alive."
by Franciso Varela in a special
issue of the Stanford Humanities Review devoted to the
exploration of convergences and dissonances between Artificial Intelligence
and the Humanities. "Heinz von Foerster is the real architect of what can
be called second-order cybernetics, which deals with the pervasive role
of self-reference in all these domains, including the inevitable second-order
observation of the observer."
"I wrote this
to inform members of the 1995 Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere
conference about psychoanalysis on the 'net and included some reflections
on net dynamics. It was extended and developed for a seminar at
the Sheffield Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies in January, 19."
This is an
exploration of people's primitive feelings about computers and getting
on the Internet. It also examines some of the fantasy and other
irrational elements of being on the 'net. It draws inspiration from
Sherry Turkle's new book Life on the Screen: Identity in the age
of the Internet.
A body of theory that some colleagues of mine and I have developed
over the past 20-plus years. It is a perspective that integrates anthropology,
human evolution, phenomenology and neuroscience. -- Charlie Laughlin
"An interdisciplinary journal of art and cultural studies, addressing
critical issues in contemporary institutions and practices. It publishes
contributions spanning a wide range of media, and encourages contributors
to use new media in order to expand critical and theoretical work to
Internet reading audiences."
This special issue edited by Gary Hall features N. Katherine Hayles,
Mark Amerika, Ted Striphas, Andy Miah, Alan Clinton, Charlie Gere,
Anna Munster, Cathryn Vasseleu, Chris Chesher, Gregory Ulmer, and Bernard
Stiegler. See Also, Issue 3 (2001) Virologies:
Culture and Contamination.
Report broken links to Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu
homepage: http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/resources/digitalmedia/
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November 20, 2005
Humanistic
Implications of Recent Research into Cognitive Science and Artificial Life.
RealAudio presentation with outline slides.