Psyberspace

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.

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!

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.

11 December, 1999 Walter Logeman, intro

Romanticism On the Net Romanticism On the Net is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic studies.

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

“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 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

Visualizing Usenet Groups with Loom

This looks really nice!