Cyberselfish Review

http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/books/borsook/index.html

Although Paulina Borsook has been writing about cyberculture for over a decade, most academics first discovered her via “The Memories of a Token: An Aging Berkeley Feminist Examines Wired,” Borsook’s chapter in the 1996 anthology Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Since then, Borsook has published a number of influential pieces in Salon and Mother Jones and, in 2001, published Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech. Aimée Morrison, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Alberta who is working on a dissertation exploring the personal computer in 1980s literary and popular culture, reviews Cyberselfish, followed by a rejoinder from the author.

Interesting discussion.

Books of the Month: August 2001

Books of the Month — Index August 2001

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001. Reviewed by Katie Mondloch.

Scott McCloud, Zot!: Hearts and Minds. Published Online. Reviewed by Matt Wolf-Meyer.

Review Essay: William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1996) and William J. Mitchell, e-topia: “Urban Life, Jim — But Not As We Know It” (MIT Press, 1999). Reviewed by Michael Gurstein.

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Visceral Technologies

While writing about Psyborgs I wanted to show how connected we are – our individual psyche and the collective – or that the ideas we have are integral to us and connected to their source – hence the desire to grab the Net to look-up – to be curious… I had the idea that ideas were close to the physical and that thought them we are tied to the cyberworlds. I looked up “visceral idea” in Google and found some interesting sites, notably this article from Marc Demarest. Lovely:

“Information wants out. And the computer wants in.”

What a nice idea!

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The C.G. Jung Page: Cyberwork: The archetypal imagination in new realms of ensoulment. An article by Cliff Bostock. Towards a Jungian Psychology of Technology

from the jung pages

“Do the gods occupy cyberspace? Can soul be constructed in virtual reality?”

This is an excellent paper – one that defends the sort of position that Psybernet has had since its inception.

“Cliff Bostock is a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. This essay is a re-working of some of the ideas presented in an earlier paper “Cyberspace: Shadow of the Cultural Imagination?”which was inspired by a meeting between James Hillman and his class at Pacfifica.”

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Loom2 Work in Progress

“Loom2 is a continuation of the work that began in Loom.
Our process involves both design sketching and computational sketching which work off of each other in a simultaneous process”

The people:

professor judith donath . danah boyd . hyun-yeul lee . dan ramage with additional support from ming-en cho and jonathan goler