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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 219.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:54:36 +0100
             From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
    <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
             Subject: LIST OF INTERESTING BOOKS

    Dear Dr. Willard McCarty,

    Following are my personal findings regarding the books related to the
    Cyborgs, Postmodernism, Virtual Reality, Media, Philosophy of Information
    and Technology, Cybermedia, Internet and Cyberspace, and Digital culture,
    Science Fiction and technology, hypertext etc -during my cyberexplorations
    and thought, this might interest you. I hope these books would also be
    helping you in your teaching and learning -the books are *highly
    recommended*

    Actually, I tried to collect some important books on the contemporary
    issues related to Philosophy of cyberspace, AI, computers and VR, digital
    culture and technology, hypertext and writings etc, but if I have missed
    some other books on important issues related to above themes, please let
    me know! Thanks you very much in advance! --Arun Tripathi

    "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES

    "We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images
    when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the
    image of the thing itself." --William S. Burroughs

    What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of
    its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
    attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
    over abundance of information sources that might consume it.
    ---Nobel Laureate, Economist, Herbert A. Simon---

    Another important thoughts..Herbert Simon quote..
    It is not my aim to surprise or shock you --but the simplest way I can
    summarize is to say that, there are now machines that can think, that can
    learn, and that can create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is
    going to increase rapidly until --in a visible future-- the range of
    problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which
    the human mind has been applied..

    Telepresence -the remote projection of human abilities into a Machine -the
    melding of Mind and machine.

    (Excerpts from an Interview with Semiotics writer, Umberto Eco)
    Q. What does your take on Marshall McLuhan? You have written that the
    global village is an overrated metaphor, as "the real problem of an
    electronic community in solitude." Do you feel that McLuhan's philosophy
    is too lightweight to justify the cult that has been dedicated to him?

    A. McLuhan wasn't a philosopher --he was a sociologist with a flair of
    trend spotting. If he were alive today he would probably be writing books
    contradicting what he said 30 or 40 years ago. As it was, he came up with
    the global village prophecy, which has turned out to be at least partly
    true, the "end of the book" prophecy, which has turned out to be totally
    false, and a great slogan --"The medium is the message"- which works a lot
    better for television that it does for the Internet.

    "The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great
    reliability; and something is bound to come of it."
    --Vannevar Bush, 1945 (As We May Think)--

    --Some excerpts from Michael Benedikt (Ed.) "Cyberspace: First Steps" on
    Cyberspace Ideology-- "Cyberspace is a completely spatialized visualization
    of all information in global information processing systems, along
    pathways provided by present and future communications networks; enabling
    full copresence and interaction of multiple users, allowing input and
    output from and to the full human sensorium, permitting simultaneous of
    real and virtual realities, remote data collection and control through
    telepresence, and total integration and intercommunication with a full
    range of intelligent products and environments in real space."
    REVIEWs of _Cyberspace: First Steps_ can be read at
    (http://dannyreviews.com/h/Cyberspace_First_Steps.html)
    (http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/telecom/telecom-archives/book.reviews/cyberspace.first.steps)

    Some of the following books, are taking the questions such as, Is
    cyberspace an inevitable development in the interaction of humans and
    computers?, What will it look like?, What are the larger narratives that
    work to shape collective perceptions of e-space?

    Describing the Internet, Luciano Floridi at Oxford, wrote:

    A whole population of several million people interacts by means of the
    global network. It is the most educated, intellectual community that ever
    appeared on earth, a global academy that, like a unique Leibnizian mind,
    thinks always. The Internet is a completely new world, about which we seem
    to know very little....its appearance has found most of us, and especially
    the intellectual community thoroughly unprepared.
    ---The Information Society, Vol 12, No.1---

    Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum auch einmal sprach, "..Fuer den, der weiss, was er
    sucht ist das Internet eine wunderbare Quelle. Fuer den, der einfach nur
    rumsurft, gilt das natuerlich nicht. Der Zugang zu viel Wissen bedeutet
    eben nicht, dass man das Wissen nuzten kann. Das Internet ist ein
    Schrotthaufen, in dem Geld und Perlen versteckt sind.." He further goes
    on saying, "..On the Web, there is no informations, only "signals" are
    present. We, human-beings should try to change the "signals" into
    "informations" --the use of "signals" is also discussed elsewhere in
    the latest book of Albert Borgmann, "_Holding On To Reality_"
    Interview mit Joseph Weizenbaum on _Das Internet ist ein Schrotthaufen mit
    Perlen drin_ is located at
    (http://www.oszhdl.be.schule.de/gymnasium/faecher/informatik/internet/weizenbaum.htm)

    "Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing
    video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge,
    knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of
    the other and we need them all." ---Arthur C. Clarke---

    In the book, *The Digital Dialectic* (ed.) Peter Lunenfeld, --several
    media scholars and philosophers contributed new essays on new media --such
    as Michael Heim's The cyberspace Dialectic, Carol Gigliotti's The Ethical
    Life of the Digital Aesthetic, N. Katherine Hayles's The Condition of
    Virtuality, William Mitchell's Replace Place, George Landow's Hypertext as
    Collage-Writing, Lev Manovich's What is Digital Cinema?, etc. Details at
    (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-home.tcl?isbn=0262621371)

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    Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Efects of
    Conscious Purpose on Human Adaption (Washington DC: The Smithsonian,
    1991) by Mary Catherine Bateson.

    Thinking Through Technology, 1994, p. 6-9 cy Carl Mitcham

    Marshall McLuhan meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace" by Michael Doherty
    (CMC Magazine, September..1995)

    Connected Intelligence by Derrick De Kerckhove, 1997

    The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture by
    Dinty Moore, 1995

    Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Cambridge: HUP,
    1990) by Hans Moravec

    The Adpated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
    (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides,
    and John Tooby, eds.

    Preface to Plato (Cambridge: HUP, 1982) by Eric A. Havelock

    The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Cambridge: MIT
    Press, 1991) by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch.

    Snow Crash (New York: Bantam, 1992) by Neal Stephenson

    The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts (Chicago:
    University of Chicago Press, 1994) by Richard Lanham

    Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (New York:
    W.H. Freeman, 1976) by Joseph Weizenbaum

    Posthuman Bodies (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995) by
    Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston.

    The Skin of Culture by Derrick De Kerckhove (Sommerville Publishing House,
    Toronto, 1995)

    Minds, Brains and Science (Cambridge, HUP, 1986) by John R. Searle

    Neuromancer (New York, Ace Books, 1984) by William Gibson

    Research in Philosophy and Technology, edited by Frederick Ferre & George
    Allan (vol 14, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994)

    Being Digital by Nicholas Nergroponte

    Bruno Latour, "We have Never Been Modern", translated by Catherine Porter
    (Cambridge: HUP, 1993)

    Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community by Steve Jones
    (Newbury Park. CA)

    The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn (dramatic trilogy in text and on
    video) 1988

    Welcome To...Internet: From Mystry to Mastery by T. Badgett and C. Sandler
    (NY MIS Press, 1993)

    The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)

    Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, edited by
    Timothy Druckrey (New York: Aperture, 1996)

    Avatars of the Word: from Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge: HUP, 1998)
    by James J. O'Donnell

    The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffery Nunberg

    As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (1945)

    Hypertext 2.0 By George Landow (1997)

    Teledemocracy: Can technology protect democracy? by F.C. Arterton
    (Newbury Park: Sage, 1987)

    The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence --ed. Margaret A. Boden (OUP)
    (computing, AI and systems theory)

    Thomas Flynn & Dalia Judovitz (Eds.), Dialectic and Narrative

    Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization,
    University of Minnesota Press, 1996

    Being Human in the Ultimate: Studies in the Thought of John M. Anderson
    -edited by Michael Heim, N. Georgopoulos (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and
    Atlanta 1995)

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic by Martin Heidegger, (translation),
    with translator's introduction, notes, and lexicon, Indiana University
    Press, 1984

    The Universal Turing Machine. A Half-Century Survey,II --ed. Rolf Herken
    (New York: Springer) (computing, AI and systems theory)

    Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The fate of Reading in the
    Electronic Age, NY: Fawcett Columbine, (1994)

    John H. Holland: Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An
    Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and
    Artificial intelligence, MIT Press, 1992

    John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, 1989

    John Haugeland (Ed.), Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology and Artificial
    Intelligence, MIT Press, 1997

    The Varieties of Reference, Gareth Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982

    Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines --by H.M.
    Collins (MIT Press, 1990)

    Mark Dery, (Ed.), Flame wars: the discourse of cyberculture, Duke
    University Press, 1994

    Philip Hayward & Tana Wollen, (Eds.), Future visions: new technologies of
    the screen, London, 1993

    David Holmes, (Ed.) Virtual politics: identity and community in
    cyberspace, London, 1997

    Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution,
    --edited by Peter Droege, (Amsterdam, North Holland, 1997)

    Understanding Images: Finding Meaning in Digital Imagery, --edited by
    Frank Marchese (TELOS, The Electronic Libary of Science, Santa Cruz,
    California) (Telos-springer Press, NY, 1995)

    Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology (London/NY: Routledge, 1999)

    Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy
    and Social Theory (University of California Press, 1995)

    Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology (OUP, 1991)

    _Holding On to Reality_: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the
    Millennium (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) by Albert Borgmann

    How to advertise on the Internet by Michael Strangelove & Aneurin Bosley
    (Strangelove Press, 1994)

    --books opposing the new techno-eugenics--
    Andrew, Lori. _The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive
    Technology_. NY:Henry Holt, 1999

    Appleyard, Bryan. _Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future_.
    NY:Viking, 1998

    ----
    

    --books supporting the new techno-eugenics--

    Pence, Gregory E. _Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?_. Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield, 1998

    Silver, Lee. _Remaking Eden: How Cloning and Beyond Will Change the Human Family_. NY:avon, 1997 ----

    Crossing the Postmodern Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) by Albert Borgmann

    >From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design by Terry Winograd (1997)

    The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) editor Peter Lunenfeld (The first chapter, Unfinished Business is available online at <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/LUNDH/ch01.pdf> )

    In the Age of the Smart Machine: the future of Work and Power by S. Zuboff (New York: Basic Books, 1988)

    Hypermedia and Literary Studies (MIT, 1991) by George P. Landow

    The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities (MIT, 1993) by George P. Landow

    The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford (1982, 1997)

    Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition (Princeton University Press, 1992)

    Brian S. Turner, The Body and Society (Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1984)

    The Body and the Self, edited by J. L. Bermudez, A. Marcel and N. Eilan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books., 1995

    Computers as Theatre (Addison-Wesley 1991) by Branda Laurel

    When Things Start To Think, Neil Gershenfeld, Henry Holt and Company, NY, 1992 (According to the author..we must analyse the computer for irrational and antisocial behaviour. Dr. Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the physics and media group and co-director of the Things That Think (TTT) consortium at MIT's Media Lab, who thinks, that computers and other high-technology devices are too hard to use. He says, "..There is a disconnect between the breathless pronouncements of cybergurus and the experience of ordinary people left perpetually upgrading hardware to meet the demands of new software.." --Good book to read) See details at (http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/books/ba/) and (http://www.media.mit.edu/~neilg/) and read also the vision of TTT at (http://www.media.mit.edu/ttt/vision.htm)

    The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (1988)

    Richard Holeton, Composing cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age, NY, McGraw Hill, 1997

    Peter Ludlow, High noon on the electronic frontier: conceptual issues in cyberspace, MIT Press, 1996

    Rod Shields, Cultures of Internet: virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies, London, 1996

    Marc Smith & Peter Kollock, (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace, NY, Routledge, 1998

    Susan Leigh Star, The Cultures of Comouting, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996

    Dale Spencer, Nattering on the net: women, power, and cyberspace, North Melbourne, 1995

    Brian Winston, Media technology and society: a hiostory from the telegraph to the Internet, London: Routledge, 1998

    Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy: A Critical Primer --ed. by Robert A. Code (Greenwood Press, 2000) (The book poineering approaches to online education. The contribitors to the book, note that Web-based pedagogy is associated with sound instruction when particular strategies are adopted.)

    Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures (forthcoming MIT Press) by Peter Lunenfeld.

    The Invisible Computer by Don Norman (1998)

    The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2000) by Lev Manovich (an expert in new media research) Details at (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262133741) (TEXT ONLINE) From the Introduction of _The Language of New Media_ at (http://www.manovich.net/LNM/index.html) and details about author Lev Manovich at (http://www.manovich.net/index.html) (TEXT ONLINE) What is Digital Cinema* at (http://www.manovich.net/text/digital-cinema.html)

    The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (March 2000, MIT Press) edited by Ken Goldberg Details about the book at (http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/tele) & (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262072033) (TEXT ONLINE) Introduction: The Unique Phenomenon of a Distance, Ken Goldberg at (http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/tele/intro.html)

    City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995) by William J. Mitchell.

    The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (MIT Press, 1992) by William J. Mitchell

    The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition (MIT Press, 1990) by William J. Mitchell

    E-topia: Urban Life, Jim --But Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999-2000) by William J. Mitchell

    Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995) by Sherry Turkle

    Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division (MIT Press, 1991) by Hubert L. Dreyfus

    Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (Free Press, 1986) by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus.

    What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (MIT Press, 1992) by Hubert L. Dreyfus

    Computation and Human Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1997) by Philip E. Agre

    Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale U. Press, 1999) written by Michael Heim with a preface by David Hillel Gelernter (New editon)

    Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (HarperCollins, 1973)

    Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday, 1959)

    R.L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)

    S. Harnad, Other bodies, Other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1:43-54

    L. Sproull and S. Kiesler, Connections (MIT Press, 1991)

    Virtual Realism (Oxford U. Press, 1998) by Michael Heim

    The Illusion of the End, by Jean Baudrillard, Cambridge:Polity Press, 1994

    The New Constellation, by Richard, MIT Press, 1995

    The Postmodern Explained, by Jean-Francois Lyotard, University of Minneapolis Press, 1993

    The End of Modernity, by Gianni Vattimo, CUP, 1992

    The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (was published by Oxford U. Press, 1993) by Michael Heim. (Books, Seminars, Conferences on the Philosophy of Virtual Reality and the 3-D Internet can be found at <http://www.mheim.com> )

    The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet by Margaret Wertheim (Random House, 1999)

    How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (University of Chicago Press, 1999) by N. Katherine Hayles.

    Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real (Leonardo(Series)(Cambridge, Massachusets.).) MIT Press, 1999 by Richard Coyne.

    Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor (MIT Press, 1995) by Richard Coyne

    Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace (Touchstone Books, 1998) by Steven Holtzman

    Postmodern Currents: Arts and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (Prentice Hall, 1996) by Margaret Lovejoy

    The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century -by Katherine Hayles (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984)

    Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Religion in the Information Age (Harmony Books, 1998) by Erik Davis

    Web Developer.com(r) Guide to 3D Avatars (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) by Sue Ki Wilcox

    Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science -by Katherine Hayles (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990)

    The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture (Princeton Architectural Pr., 1998) by John Beckmann

    Avatars!: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet (Peachpit Press, 1997) by Bruce Damer

    Magical A-Life Avatars: A New Paradigm for the Internet (Manning Publications Company, 1998) by Peter Small

    Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray (MIT Press, 1999)

    Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, From Method to Metaphor [A LEONARDO BOOK] by Richard Coyne

    Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli (MIT Press 1998)

    Words and Rules by Steven Pinker (Basic Books)

    How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

    The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

    The Real, True Angel by Robin Lippincott

    The Cartographer's Vacations (collections of peotry) by Andrea Cohen

    Cyberspace: First Steps, editor M. Benedikt (MIT Press, 1991)

    Thomas Landauer, The Trouble With Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity, MIT Press (1996) (The books tells you why computers suck and it tells you why they have not delivered what they have promised, usability issues)

    Writing Space: The Computer in the History if Literacy by Jay David Bolter (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)

    The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context by Mark Poster (University of Chicago Press, 1990)

    Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (web & interface design)

    Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman (NY: Random House, 1992)

    Nicholas Maxwell, The Mind-Body Problem and Explanatory Dualism (Cambridge University Press, 2000) ["An important part of the mind-body problem arises because consciousness seems inherently resistant to scientific explanation. The solution to this dilemma, is to recognize, first that scientific explanation can only render comprehensible, a selected aspect of what there is, and second that there is a mode of explanation, the personalistic, different form; irreducible to, but as viable as, scientific explanation, in terms of which consciousness can be understood."]

    Ben Schneiderman, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (for web and interface designers)

    The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis by Margaret Rose, 1991

    --Principles of Interactive Design-- understanding software architecture, digital design The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener (NY: Doubleday, 1954)

    Terry Winograd, Bringing Design To Software, Addison-Wesley (1996)

    Michael J. Hernandez, Database Design For Mere Mortals, Addison-Wesley (1997)

    Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture For The World Wide Web, O'Reilly (1998) --

    Computers and Thoughts --eds. Edward A. Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman (MIT Press, 1995)

    Artificial Intelligence in Paradise --ed. Daniel G. Bobron (MIT Press, 1994)

    George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980)^

    --Digital Historiography: Information Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution, John Hopkins University Press, 1998

    Paul Levinson, The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution, Routledge, 1997

    Douglas S. Robertson, The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization, Oxford University Press, 1998 ----

    Ceruzzi, Paul E. History of Modern Computing, MIT Press, 1998

    Escape Velocity: Cyber Culture and the End of the Century --by Mark Dery (is a study of core fears and instincts..the author explores the digital future, from hellish pitfalls to the glorious and happy things)

    Gary Schaprio, (ed.) After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (The book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architectures, and sociologists.)

    Steal This Computer book: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet --by Wally Wang (the book explores the dark underbelly of the Internet..)

    Computational Theories of Intention and Agency --eds. Philip E. Agre and Stanley Rosenschien (MIT Press, 1996)

    Affective Computing --Rosalind Picard (MIT Press, 1997)

    Digital Mantras --by Steven R. Holtzman (MIT Press, 1995)

    Models of My Life --by Herbert A. Simon (MIT Press, 1996)

    Misunderstanding Media by Brian Winston in 1986

    The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Mind and Human Exprience --by Francisco J. Varela & Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch (MIT Press, 1992)

    Virtual Worlds: A journey in Hype and Hyperreality by Benjamin Wooley (NY: Penguin, 1992)

    Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory editor Marie-Laure Ryan (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1999)

    Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media by Silvio Gaggi (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)

    Cybergrace, The Search for God in the Digital World by Jennifer Cobb (Crown, 1998)

    "Essays - The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the ends of Taste" (Overseas Publishers Association, 2000) by Arthur C. Danto

    "Surviving the Age of Virtual Reality" (University of Missouri Press, 2000) by Thomas Langan.

    "The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani" (PUP, 2000) by Gaetana Marrone.

    Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information --by Edward Tufte, a Yale Professor and UI Expert

    The Visual Display of Quantitative Information --by Edward Tufte

    "Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) by Mary M. Lay

    "Essays, Literature Media Information Systems" (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association) by Friedrich A. Kittler.

    Joyce Effects on Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) by Derek Attridge.

    Libraries of the Future --by J.C.R. Licklider (MIT Press, 1965)

    "Essays, Critical Voices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory, Commentary by Warren Burt" by Nicholas Zurbrugs

    Rolf Jensen, The Dream Society

    Orality and Literacy; The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong.

    The History and Power of Writing by Henri-Jean Martin

    Amusing Ourselves to Death; Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

    Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (Oxford) by Steven Connor

    On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering --by Kathryn Henderson (MIT Press, 1999)

    Freeman Dyson, The Sun, The Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions (New York, The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 1998)

    Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, The Network Nation (MIT Press, 1993)

    Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart --by Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day (MIT Press, 1999)

    A Cybersearch: Research Techniques in the Electronic Age --by John A. Butler (Penguin, 1999)

    Immerse in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments --ed. Mary Anne Mooser (MIT Press, 1996)

    Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals --ed. Niall Ferguson (New York: Basic Books, 1999)

    The Moral Turn of Postmodernism: Ethics and Aesthetics in Postmodern Theory, edited by Gerhard Hoffman et.al.

    Myth and the Making of Modernity edited by Michael Bell and Peter Poellner

    Principled Positions: Postmodernisms and the Recovery of Value edited by Judith Squires

    -- James A. Anderson. The History of Portugal (Eurospan 2000)

    Derek Attridge. Joyce Effects on Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

    Arnaldo Bagnasco, Cities in Contemporary Europe (CUP, 2000)

    Bruce Baum. Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill (University of Toronto Press, 2000)

    Philip E. Agre, and Marc Rotenberg, eds, Technology and Privacy: The New Lanscape (MIT Press, 1997)

    David B. Yoffie, ed, Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997)

    Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds, Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995)

    Linda M. Harasim, ed, Global Networks: Computers and International Communication (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993)

    Ronald C. Tobay, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electric Modernization of the American Home (University of California Press, 1996)

    James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, eds. The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and work of Christopher Isherwood (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000)

    Don Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990)

    Matthew Biro, Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (CUP, 2000)

    Body Mecanique: Artistic Explorations of Digital Realms (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 1998)

    Robert B. Brandom Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Hugh Benson, Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues, Oxford University Press, 2000

    John Brewer. The Pleasure of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Gary Browning. Lyotard and the End of Grand Narrative (University of Wales Press, 2000)

    A.L. Porter & W.H. Read(Eds.), The Information revolution: Current and future consequences, Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998

    more cyberculture and cybereconomy bibliography

    - Digital Democracy. Policy and Politics in the Wired World, 1998, edited by Cynthia J. Alexander and Leslie A. Pal, Oxford University Press. They gathered 12 really good essays about economics, politics and social issues related with the Internet.

    - Information Rules. A strategic guide to the network economy, 1999, by Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, Harvard Business School Press. One of my favorites about information economy.

    D. M. Armstrong, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1973)

    J. Campbell, Past, Space and Self, MIT Press (1994)

    H. Foster, The Return of the Real, MIT Press (1996)

    A. Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition, HUP (1986)

    I. Hacking, Representing and Intervening, Cambridge Press (1983)

    J. Davis et. al., (Eds.), Cutting edge: Technology, Information capitalism and social revolution, London: Verso, (1997)

    J. Brook and I. Boal (Eds.), Resisting the virtual life, (1995)

    Frances Carey, ed. The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to come (University of Toronto Press, 1999)

    Scott Christianson Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (NYUP, 2000)

    A. Kroker & M. Kroker, (Eds.) Digital Delirium, NY: St. Martin's Press (1997)

    Noam Chomsky. New Horizons in the Study of Mind (CUP, 2000)

    G.A. Cohen If You're an Egalitarian How Come You're so Rich? (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Sarah R. Cohen Art, Dance and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Regime (CUP, 2000)

    Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality=94 (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Lynn Enterline The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (CUP, 2000)

    Geoffrey Evans. The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context (OUP, 1999)

    Paul Fairfield. Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality (Toronto UP, 2000)

    Alain Finkielkraut, In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the 20th Century (Columbia UP, 2000)

    Robert William Fogel. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Paul Gilbert. Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2000)

    Paul Gilroy Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Robert Justin Goldstein, The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in 19th Century Europe (Praeger, 2000)

    Lionel Gossman Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Peter S. Hawkins. Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press, 2000)

    Marie-Clotilde Hubert. Construire le Temps, Normes et usages chronologiques du moyen age a L'Epoque contemporaine (Droz, 2000)

    Christopher Joppke. Immigration and the Nation State: The United States, Germany and Great Britain (OUP, 1999)

    David Kaiser. Politics and War: European conflict from Philip II to Hitler (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Alice Kaplan The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Farid el Khazen. The Breakdown of the State of Lebanon, 1967-1976= (Harvard UP, 2000)

    Friedrich A. Kittler. Essays, Literature Media Information Systems=94 (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association)

    David. L. Kirp. Almost Home: America=92s Love-Hate Relationship with Community (PUP, 2000)

    Mary M. Lay Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000)

    Carol D. Lee and Peter Smagorinsky, eds. Vygotskian Perspectives on Literary Research: Contructiong Meaning Through Collaborative Inquiry (CUP, 2000)

    J. Philip McAleer Rochester Cathedral 605-1540, An Architechtural History (University of Toronto Press, 1999)

    Montesquieu. Reflexions sur la Monarchie Universelle en Europe (Librairie Droz, 2000)

    Alexander Nehamas. The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000)

    Margaret J. Osler, eds. Rethinking Scientific Revolution (CUP, 2000)

    Ilana Pardes. The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (Calif. UP, 2000)

    Daniel Pick. Svengali's Web: The Alien Encounter in Modern Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000)

    Jennifer Jackson Preece. National Minorities and the European Nation-States System (OUP, 1998)

    Daniel T. Rodgers. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Belknap Press, 2000)

    Jane Mayo Roos, Early Impressionism and the French State, 1866-1874=94 (CUP, 2000)

    Derek Sayer. The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History=94 (PUP, 1998)

    Chandak Sengoopta. Otto Weininger: Sex, Science and Self in Imperial Vienna (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Michael Shermer and Alex Grubman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why are they Saying it?=94 (California UP, 2000)

    Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegge (PUP, 2000)

    Daniel Lord Smail Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Later Medieval Marseille (Cornell UP, 1999)

    Elizabeth Thompson. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia UP, 2000)

    Daniel Tiffany. Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (University of California Press, 2000)

    Daniel J. Vitkus. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Salimus, A Christian turned Turk, The Renegado (Columbia UP, 2000)

    Robin Walz. Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth Century Paris (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000)

    James E. Young. At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture=94 (Yale UP, 2000)

    Nicholas Zurbrugg. Essays, Critical Voices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory,Commentary Warren Burt (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association, 2000)

    THE EUROPEAN LEGACY TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) Eds. Sascha and Ezra Talmor --

    Jean Aitchison The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution (CUP, 2000)

    Horst Althaus. Hegel: A Biography (Oxford: Polity Press, 2000)

    Aaron Ben-Zeev. The Subtelty of Emotions (MIT Press, 2000)

    Harry Berger Jr. Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance (CUP, 2000)

    Allan Bloom. Shakespeare on Love and Friendship= (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman, eds. Fins de Si=E8cle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000 (Yale UP, 2000)

    Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis and Jill Kowalik. Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to the Romanticism (CUP, 2000)

    Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, ed. In the Forbidden City: An Anthology of Erotic Fiction by Italian Women (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Wilfried Dickhoff. After Nihilism: Essays on Contemporary Art (CUP, 2000)

    Aris Fioretos, ed. The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Holderlen (Stanford UP, 1999)

    Elke P. Frederiksen and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present (SUNY, 2000)

    Richard Kieckhefer. Magic in the Middle Ages (CUP, 2000)

    Mark Munn,93The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates (California UP,2000)

    Andrea Wilson Nightingale. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (CUP 2000)

    Terry Prinkard. Hegel: A Biography (CUP, 2000)

    Omar Pound and Robert Spoo. Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 (OUP, 1000)

    Kevin Repp. Reformers, Critics and the paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the search for Alternatives, 1890-1914 (Harvard UP, 2000)

    John Richards. Altichiero: An Artist and his Patrons in the Italian Trecento (CUP, 2000)

    Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield, eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (CUP, 2000)

    Ross Shideler. Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zole, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy (Stanford UP, 2000)

    Giulia Sissa and Marcel Detienne. The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (Stanford UP, 2000)

    Jennifer Summit. Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589 (Chicago UP, 2000)

    Helen Thomas. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testomonies (CUP, 2000)

    Jeffery Verhey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany (CUP, 2000)

    Rex A. Wade. The Russian Revolution, 1917 (CUP, 2000)

    Graeme J. White. Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England (CUP, 2000)

    John W. Yolton. Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology (CUP, 2000)

    Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation -ed. Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond (MIT Press)

    Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-tech --by Paulina Borsook

    Mapping Cyberspace --by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin (http://www.mappingcyberspace.com)

    Cyberspace: The World in the Wires --by Rob Kitchin

    Manuel Castells, The Information Age: three volumes; 1996-98 The rise of the network society The power of indentity End of Millennium

    Bary Wellman, Network in the Global Village

    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

    Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order

    Godel Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid --by Prof. Douglas Hofstadter (Vintage Books)

    The Entrepreneurial Web --by Peter Small (London: FT.com, 2000)

    Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space --by Annette Markhan (AltaMira Press, 1998)

    Media Virus --by Douglas Rushkoff

    Memory Trade: The Prehistory of Cyberculture --by Darren Tofts

    I. de Sola Pool, Technologies of Freedom, Belknap Press, 1983

    L. Sproull and S.B. Kiesler, Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization, Cambridge, Mass.: Mit Press, 1992

    Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi Cyberexplorer Research Scholar UNI DO, GERMANY Online Facilitator ----------------

    Acknowledgements: Evelyn Beatriz Villanueva, Cyber economist, Assistant Reasearcher, M. S. Candidatem cybersociology egroups



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