Walter Logeman: Journal
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.
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!
Mythology’s “MythingLinks”: links to Jung, Campbell, Pacifica Graduate Institute & related sites
MYTHING LINKS
An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies,
Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions
by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
A wealth of stuff to explore here.
Romanticism On the Net Romanticism On the Net is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic studies.
“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.”
Theories and Metphors of Cyberspace- Abstracts
“Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own. I would draw on the ideas of Jung and Hillman and relate it to metaphors of cyberspace. An example I am pondering at the moment is the word ‘depth’ — is the medium conducive to depth, or only breadth, and height?”
Familiar words — to me!
“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
6.04: electrosphere [dead] The Hot New Medium Is … Email
By David S. Bennahum
“List publishing is not merely information delivered to your mailbox, it’s the devolution of mass media into the hands of everyday people. And it’s growing faster than the Web.”
I just found this again! One of my favourite Wired articles ever – still relevant and right.
2010:
found it: here
