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Al Teich's Technology and the Future Toolkit (support site for Teich's Technology and the Future book, "a collection of readings intended for use in courses on technology and society) (Al Teich, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science) |
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American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science |
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EASST: The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology |
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Internet Subject Guides: Science, Technology and Society (U. Alberta) |
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NEXA: The Science-Humanities Convergence Program at San Francisco State U. |
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The Nobel Foundation |
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NY Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library |
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Resources for Teachers of English for Science and Technology (Roy Bowers) |
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Satisrun (metapage of science, technology, and society resources) (Martyn Overy, North Chadderton School, Oldham, Lancashire, England) |
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Science, Technology and Society (Catherine McCabe, Melanie O'Neil, & Karen Rowswell, U. Alberta ) |
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Society for the History of Technology [SHOT] |
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Homepage ("An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics. ") |
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Course Syllabi (We plan to add syllabi to this site as we receive them, broadening and deepening the resources available to scholars, teachers, and students who wish for whatever reasons to get a look at the many possible approaches to the history of technology an |
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History of Technology Links |
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Technology and Culture (The Journal for the Society of the History of Technology is a scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of technology in its relationships with society and culture. Although we are a journal of history, we incline toward an interdisciplin |
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The Technology Pages (Developmental Technologies, Inc.) |
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Homepage of theTechnology Pages |
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Art & Technology |
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Business & Technology |
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Education & Technology |
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Emerging Technologies |
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Energy & Technology |
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Environment & Technology |
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Industry & Technology |
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Obsolescence & Technology |
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People & Technology |
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Risk & Technology |
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Science & Technology |
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The Technological Risk List |
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Technology Around the World |
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Technology Reference Sources |
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Virtual Reality Technology |
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Wild Technology Links |
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Treasure Troves of Science (Eric Weisstein) |
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Virtual Science Library (Loyola University of Chicago Science Library) |
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Museums Of Sci-Tech |
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Air Technology Museums |
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Eighth Air Force Museum (includes specs on aircraft) |
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Ellsworth AFB (includes specs on aircraft) |
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National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institute, Wash. D. C.) |
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National Aviation Museum, Canada (in English and French) |
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Tinker AFB Air Park (includes specs on aircraft) |
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Travis Air Force Museum (includes specs on aircraft) |
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Bakken Library and Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) ("history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine") (Eric S. Boyles, U. Minnesota) |
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The Bellingham Antique Radio Museum |
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The Franklin Institute Science Museum (Philadelphia, Penn.) |
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The London Transport Museum |
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Musee des Arts et Metiers (Paris) |
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Museum of Early Instruments of the Institute of Physics, Naples |
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Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, U.K. |
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Museums, Exhibitions, & Images (WWWVL) |
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National Museum of Science & Technology, Canada (in English and French) |
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Ontario Science Centre (Toronto) |
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Physics Around the World: History of Science & Science Museums (very deep page of links to history of science resources) (M. Karttunen, G. Nowotny) |
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San Francisco Exploratorium |
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The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, Calif.) |
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Telemuseum (history of telecommunications) (Telecommunications Museum, Stockholm) |
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Virtual Museum of Technology |
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Virtual Science Museum |
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History Of Sci-Tech |
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General Resources on History of Science and Technology |
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4000 Years of Women in Science (Department of Physics & Astronomy, U. Alabama) |
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Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries (numerous biographies) (Richard S. Westfall, Indiana U.) |
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ECHO: Science and Technology ("Cataloguing, Annotating, and Reviewing Sites on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine") George Mason U.) |
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History of Science on the World Wide Web (numerous links, arranged by topic) U. of Oklahoma) |
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Internet History of Science Sourcebook (links to primary documents, arranged by subject) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida) |
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Society for the History of Technology [SHOT] ("An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics. ") |
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Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography (Eric Weisstein) |
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The Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (archives, exhibits, links, and more) (Iowa State U.) |
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The Alchemy Web Site (texts, articles, links, images, and other resources) (Adam McLean) |
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Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics (Roger Corrie) |
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Archives |
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19th-Century Scientific American On Line (issues from the 1840's in HTML) (Roger Corrie) |
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The Australian Science Archives Project (informational articles, images, and more) (U. of Melbourne) |
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The Caltech Institute Archives (archives, photographs, oral memories, and more) |
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Selected Classic Papers of the History of Chemistry (archived articles, with annotation) (Le Moyne C.) |
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Hartlib Papers Project (working papers, treatises, and scientific diaries of the 17th-century polymath Samuel Hartlib, c.1660-1662, and of his collaborators and contacts) (U. Sheffield) |
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Charle's Knight's Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1832-45) (Roger Corrie) |
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Astronomy and Physics History |
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AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter |
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History of Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy and Ethnoastronomy (links)(Wolfgang R. Dick) |
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Astronomia Historiae: History of Astronomy (articles and links arranged by topic) (Wolfgang R. Dick) |
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NASA History Office (links, resources, data, and more) (Steven Dick, NASA) |
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Physics Around the World: History of Science & Science Museums (very deep page of links to history of science resources, hosted by the State U. of New York) (M. Karttunen, G. Nowotny) |
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Center for History of Physics (Archives, resources, links, and more) (American Institute of Physics) |
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History of Psychology Resource Guide (bibliographies, links, and more) (Miriam E. Joseph, St. Louis U.) |
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History of Astronomy (Wolfgang R. Dick) |
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Charles Bazerman (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Forums of Validation and Forms of Knowledge: The Magical Rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's Sulfur Globe" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Bell's Path to the Telephone (essay) (Michael E. Gorman, U. of Virginia) |
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Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 (archived texts, bibliographies, and more) (Charles H. Smith, Western Kentucky U.) |
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Sudheer Birodkar Ancient India's Contribution to Our World's Material (Temporal) Culture (e-book, with chapters on ancient technology, science, and culture, with numerou simages and citations within each article) |
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The History of Computing (archived columns, conference information, articles, and more) (J.A.N. Lee, Virginia tech U.) |
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Evolution: Theory and History (Museum of Paleontology, U. California, Berkeley) |
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Galileo |
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Galilei, Galileo: Domus Galilaeana, Ministero per i Beni Culturali (world of Galileo; in Italian) (Institute for Research in History of Science, Pisa, Italy) |
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Galileo (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
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The Geometry of War 1500-1750 (virtual exhibits, focused on technological dimensions of warfare) (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford) |
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George Eastman and his Development of Kodak Equipment (Holly McLeod & Michelle Rose, U. of Rochester) |
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History of the Microscope (articles rranged by topic) (Miami U., Ohio) |
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Johnston-Lavis Literature Collection (collection of rare books owned by the volcanologist, Dr Henry James Johnston-Lavis) (Amy Robinson, U.College London) |
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Thomas Kuhn |
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@BRINT: A Business Researcher's Interests -- A Tribute to Thomas Kuhn ("compilation of papers from various disciplinary perspectives that have been influenced by the thinking of Thomas S. Kuhn") (Yogesh Malhotra) |
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Dan MacIsaac, "The Pedagogical Implications of Parallels between Kuhn's Philosophy of Science and Piagets' Model of Cognitive Development" (1991) |
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Leonoardo da Vinci: From inspiration to innovation (virtual exhibit, with viewable reproductions of the Codex Arundel, a 16th-century manuscript, as well as background articles, and more; in the Treasures collection) (the British Library, London, UK) |
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A Leonardo da Vinci Notebook (Codex Arundel) (British Library exhibit) |
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Brief History of Marconi's Three Trans-Atlantic Radio Stations in Cape Breton (online resources and pictures relating to the radio inventor) (Stephen Manley & Chad MacDonald) |
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History of Mathematics in Asia (links to images of calendars and an article on Chinese mathematics, plus images and overview) (Saxakali.com) |
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Maya Adventure (virtual exhibits, using scientific activities to explore Maya civilization; includes a photograph page) (Science Museum of Minnesota) |
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Medicine History |
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History of Biomedicine (links and articles arranged by region and time-period) (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) |
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Chimed: The History of Chinese Medicine (links and articles, program information, and more) (Albion C.) |
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Medicina Antiqua / Ancient Medicine ("Greco-Roman medicine and medical thought from Mycenaean times until the fall of the Roman empire") (Lee T. Pearcy, The Episcopal Academy, Merion, Pennsylvania) |
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Medieval Medicine and Biology (illustrations and commentary on the classical Greek medical authorities) (Vatican Library) |
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HistMed: The History of Medicine Group at Emory University . (program information, resources) |
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Medieval Science |
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Anatomical Illustration (late 13th-C. scientific drawing) (Bodleian Library) |
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AVISTA (Association Villard de Nonnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art) (links, resources, and more) |
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The Medieval Science Page (links arranged by topic) (James McNelis) |
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NetSerf: Medieval Science & Technology (History Dept., Catholic U. of America) |
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Science and Technology |
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Medieval Cosmology (Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College) |
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The Medieval Experimental Museum (a living history center that performs historically accurate reconstructions)(Medieval Centre, Denmark) |
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The Astrolabe (discussion of the technology involved, including a downloadable electronic astrolabe) (James E. Morrison) |
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Nicholas Whyte (Queen's U. of Belfast) Astronomy and Astrology in the 12th Century |
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The Medieval Bestiary (homepage linking to e-texts, articles, descriptions of bestiary manuscripts, and to a massive bibliogrpahy on medieval animals) (David Badke) |
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Medieval Cosmology (includes illustration of Ptolemaic geocentric model)(Luminarium) |
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Medieval Science and Scientific Instruments (Richard A. Paselk, Humboldt U.) |
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The Medieval Science Page (numerous links, arranged by topic) (James McNelis) |
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The Medieval Technology Pages (arranged by subject) (Paul J. Gans, New York U.) |
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The Planets and Their Children: A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology ("a hypermedia presentation of a blockbook or "Planetenbuch", in which I have attempted to make the 15th-century experience of reading a popular astrology text accessible to a modern, nonspecialist audience") (Marianne Hansen) |
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Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages from the Goodcookery site, based on the writings of Ernst & Johanna Lehner and William A. Emboden) |
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David Chart Starry Messenger ("Phase I of the Electronic History of Astronomy developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science") (Sachiko Kusukawa and Liba Taub, Trinity College, Cambridge) |
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MendelWeb ("resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science") (Roger B. Blumberg) |
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The International Commission on the History of Meteorology (program information, bibliographies, and more) (Colby C., Waterville, ME) |
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Isaac Newton Resources (annotated links on Newton's history and works) (Isaac newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK) |
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NOAA History (numerous articles and resources on the NOAA and related agencies) (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA) |
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Virtual Guide to the History of Russian Science and Technology (archives, bibliographies, and more) (Massachusetts I. of Technology) |
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Space History (NASA) |
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Alan Turing Page (Andrew Hodges) |
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Victorian Science: An Overview (articles and links arranged by topic; part of the Victorian Web site) (John van Wyhe, National U. of Singapore and Cambridge U.) |
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Victorian Technology: An Overview (part of the Victorian Web; articles and links arranged by topic, including the Industrial Revolution, factories, railway systems, and more) (George Landow, Brown U.) |
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (discovered X-Rays on November 8, 1895; historical data and nice photos both of Roetgen's work place and machines and of his xrays; German text only)(Michael Stegmann) |
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The Industrial Revolution |
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General Resources |
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From The Victorian Web (George P. Landow, Brown U., Et Al.) |
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Ages of Technology |
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The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview (Vitcorian Web) (George Landow, Brown U.) |
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Jonathan F. Scott and Alexander Baltzly, The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England (excerpts from 1830 textbook titled Readings in European History Since 1814) (Laura Del Col) |
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Victorian Economics: An Overview |
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The Industrial Revolution (Rocky) |
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The Industrial Revolution (series of presentation slides on the topic) (K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State U.) |
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The Industrial Revolution: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism (St. Edwards C., Texas) |
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Science, Religion and Early Victorian Culture, 1780-1859 (Bibliography) (Graham Smith) |
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Canalia (online magazine "dedicated to Britain's historic canals and waterways") (Wordmaster Publishing) |
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John Cook, Materials From Lecture On |
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The Industrial Revolution |
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Industrial Design |
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Steven Jones (Loyola U., Chicago), Industrial Romanticism (course on late 18th- and early 19th-century literature and the Industrial Revolution) |
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The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England (material from a 1930 history textbook) (Laura Del Col) |
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Leah Renold, "Gandhi: Patron Saint of the Industrialist" (U. Texas) |
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Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884) (three lectures by Toynbee) |
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James Watt |
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James Watt (brief biography) (Spartacus, UK) |
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Reminiscences of James Watt ("This article is copied from Robert Hart, "Reminiscences of James Watt:," Transactions of the Glasgow Archæological Society, 1st Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 1-7 (1859). ... This article contains the most-quoted account of the moment of Watt's in |
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Steam Models and General Description ("I have always thought that James Watt invented the steam engine. I now know that he did not ...")(Jos Kalse, The Netherlands) |
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Philosophy Of Science |
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Complexity Studies |
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Bibliography of Measures of Complexity (Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan U.) |
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Complexity Related Links |
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Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan U.), "What is Complexity? - The Philosophy of Complexity Per Se with Application to Some Examples in Evolution" |
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Ends and Means: Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society |
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Paul Feyerabend |
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Feyerabend Forum (Web page for the archives of the Feyerabend list, with links to additional resources) (Marko Toivanen / Spoon Collective) |
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Feyerabend Listserv (Spoons Collective) |
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Gottlob Frege Page (on Philosophy page) |
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Thomas Kuhn |
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@BRINT: A Business Researcher's Interests -- A Tribute to Thomas Kuhn ("compilation of papers from various disciplinary perspectives that have been influenced by the thinking of Thomas S. Kuhn") (Yogesh Malhotra) |
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Dan MacIsaac, "The Pedagogical Implications of Parallels between Kuhn's Philosophy of Science and Piagets' Model of Cognitive Development" (1991) |
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Kurt Gödel (on Philosophy page) |
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Dmitri V. Panchenko (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg), "Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Philosophy Of Chemistry |
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Hyle: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry (full-text articles) |
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Philosophy of Chemistry Resources (Philosophy Dept., Smith C.) |
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Philosophy of Science and Mathematics (Brendan Larvor, U. Hertfordshire) |
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Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography ("ethical, social, political, legal, historical and philosophical issues in mental health and psychiatry") (Christian Perring) |
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Major Sci-Tech Projects, Labs, Centers |
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Human Genome Project (Life Sciences Div., Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
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Jet Propulsion Lab |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Gottlob Frege Page (on Philosophy page) " target="VoSLink"> |
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Mathematics |
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Larry Riddle, Agnes Scott College) |
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History of Mathematics Home Page (David E. Joyce, Clark U) |
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History of Mathematics: Timeline (David E. Joyce, Clark U.) |
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History of Mathematics Page (D.R. Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin) |
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Kurt Gödel (on Philosophy page) |
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Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (short biographies from a work of 1908 by W.W. Rouse Ball) (D.R. Wilkes, Trinity College, Dublin) |
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Pulchritudinous Primes: Visualizing the Distribution of Prime Numbers (2D & 3D visualizations of the distribution of prime numbers, the Ulam spiral, etc.) (Adrian J.F. Leatherland) |
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Medicine |
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An OnLine Art and Architecture Tour of the U. S. National Library of Medicine (link takes you to search page; type in "art and architecture") (National Library of Medicine) |
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Biomedical Ethics Resources on WWW (U. British Columbia) |
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Human Anatomy On-Line ("the place for fun, interactive and educational views of the human body") (Informative Graphics Corp.) |
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Martindale's Health Science Guide - '95 (large multimedia database of medical teaching files, cases, courses, images, and MPEG movies) |
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Medical Matrix (guide to Internet medical resources) |
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Medical College of Wisconsin Bioethics Online Service |
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Medical Humanities |
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Homepage (New York U.) |
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Archives of the lit-med-talk mailing list |
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Literature and Medicine Database (Medical Humanities) |
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Medical Humanities Directory |
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Syllabi in Medical Humanities |
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Medical Law Review |
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MedWeb: History of Medicine (Emory U. Health Sciences Center Library) |
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Milestones in Cardiology (timeline) (Franklin Institute Science Museum) |
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National Institute of Health (NIH) |
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Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) |
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Restoration: Medicine (background page with links to accompany the film with Sam Neill as Charles II) (Miramax Films / Open Book Systems) |
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Susan Leigh Star & and Geoffrey C. Bowker (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis" (1996) |
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U. Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care |
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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Space |
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Apollo 11 Moon Mission |
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Ars Astronautica ("dedicated to developing a cultural dimension to humanity's space endeavors by exploring, reporting and nurturing the arts in and about space") (Arthur Woods / Leonardo) |
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Astronomy: Databases, Images and Surveys (Sergio Paoli / WWW Virtual Library) |
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Astronomy Picture of the Day ("Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer") |
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Canadian Space Agency |
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter (National Space Science Data Center) |
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Estes Model Rocket Catalog |
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Explore the Universe with NASA's Astro-2 (Web page of the Astro-2 Shuttle mission; send questions to the astronauts in orbit) |
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The Face of Venus (FOV) Home Page |
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The Galaxy Page (metapage of space-related resources) (U. Arizona) |
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Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater (virtual online planetarium) (Carolyn Collins Petersen) |
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Jet Propulsion Lab |
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Leonardo Space Art Project ("aims to make visible the work of artists, writers, composers and others interested in the exploration of outer space") |
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Mars Pathfinder Mission (directory of links to multiple government and corporate mirror sites) (NASA/JPL) |
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NASA Home Page |
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NASA Shuttle Web (new page for all shuttle missions; detailed, up-to-the-minute multimedia info during each flight) |
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Space History (NASA) |
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The Space Shuttle Clickable Map (Student Space Awareness, Inc.) |
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Space Telescope Electronic Information Service |
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The Vatican Observatory ("one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world") (Chris Corbally, S.J.) |
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Views Of The Solar System (educational tour of the solar system) (Calvin J. Hamilton) |
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Vultus Uraniae (page on astronomy, mythology, and other lore related to Urania; in Italian and English) (Pierluigi Battistini, Laura Peperoni, & Marina Zuccoli, U. Bologna, Italy) |
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West to Mars (collaborative site of art, essays, music, poetry, photography, and articles boosting the Mars exploration effort) (Ken Fair) |
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Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity Studies, Robotics, Nanotech |
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Artificial Intelligence / Life |
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AI On the Web (links to over 800 sites) (Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley) |
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Alan Turing Page |
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Applied AI/AI in Education Technical Report Archive (Lancaster U.) |
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Artificial Life Online (International Society for Artificial Life) (MIT Press) |
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Artificial Intelligence Primer |
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Artificial Life Bibliography of Publications (Ezequel Di Paolo, U. Sussex) |
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The Autonomous Agents Group (MIT Media Lab) |
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Luis Rocha (Indiana U.) Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life (2004) (course) |
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research |
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Laboratory for the Culture of the Artificial (research, theory, and links relating to artificial intelligence/life) (U. Urbino, Italy) |
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Marvin Minsky Page (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) |
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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (previously |
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The Turing Test Homepage ("contains all the information that we could find concerning the so called 'Turing Test' ") (Ayse Pinar Saygin) |
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Complexity Studies |
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Complexity Related Links (Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University) |
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Complexity Digest ("weekly news digest from the field of complexity studies") |
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Complexity International (journal on artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, fractals, neural networks, parallel processing, and other systems of complex behavior from the interaction of multiple parallel processes) |
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Michael Dillon (U. Lancaster) "From Science to Poetics: Poststructuralism versus Complexity Science" (1999) |
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Nanotech |
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Channels: Nanotechnology (Nanotech coverage in Scientific American) |
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Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology (Nov. 9-11, 1995, Palo Alto, CA) (Ralph C. Merkle, Xerox PARC) |
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Institute for Molecular Manufacturing Palo Alto, CA) |
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Nanofabrication Facility at UC Santa Barbara |
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Nanotechnology Page (Ralph C. Merkle, Xerox PARC) |
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Nanotechnology Now ("your gateway to everything nanotech" |
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Robotics |
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Australian Telerobotics (Ken Taylor, Robotics and Automation Lab) |
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Interfacing Reality |
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Homepage of Interfacing Reality (tele-embodiment projects) (Eric Paulos, John Canny, U. California, Berkeley) |
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PRoP: Personal Roving Presence (control a moving blimp with a camera) |
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Eduardo Kac |
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Ornitorrinco in Eden: A Networked Telepresence Installation realized on the Internet on Oct. 23, 1994 |
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Ornitorrinco and Rara Avis: Telepresence Art on the Internet (critical essay) |
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Ken Goldberg (roboticist and "telepresence" artist, USC) |
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The Robot Group ("To promote excellence and innovation in the integration of advanced technology with the arts . . . To provide a forum for interaction between artists and technologists . . .") |
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Robotics FAQ (Kevin Downing, Carnegie Mellon U.) |
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Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon U.) |
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Robotics Related Sites (U. California, Berkeley) |
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Robots.net ("robot news and robotics info") |
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Robot Wars (the high-tech demolition derby event) |
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Survival Research Laboratories ("creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations") |
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The Tele-Garden (new experiment in telepresence from the creator of the Robot Tele-Excavation Project: use a robot arm to plant seeds in a garden and watch them grow. Note: you must return regularly to water your plant or it will die) (Ken Goldberg, USC) |
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UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory |
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Alternative Sci-Tech & "Posthumanism" |
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Anders Transhuman Page: Transhumanist Resources (remarkable page of futurist science speculation; includes glossary; "Transhumanism is a philosophy that humanity can, and should, strive to higher levels, both physically, mentally and socially. It encourages research into such areas as life e |
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CAT: Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) |
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FleshFactor: AAS Electronica Festival Netsymposium (1997 online symposium on the technological evolution of the human "individual") |
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Progress and Its Sustainability ("This Web page and its satellites are aimed at showing that human material progress is desirable and sustainable") (John McCarthy, Stanford U.) |
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Howard Rheingold, "21st: Mark Dery Achieves Escape Velocity" (on "post-humanism") (Salon) |
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Skeptic.com (skeptical of pseudo-science) |
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The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture for a Sustainable Future (" It is now possible that everyone could enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities that a prosperous civilization can provide. This can be accomplished through the intelligent application of science and technology") |
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World Future Society |
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Sci-Tech & Cultural Studies (Including Technology Theory; See Also Philosophy of Technology on Philosophy page) |
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The 2001 Principle ("Re-examines and attempts to re-validate the classical 'Argument from Design' using the concept of Cognitive Dissonance and audience reaction to the film 2001--A Space Odyssey") (info@2001principle.net) |
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Actor Network Theory Resource Page (Annotated Bibliography) ("Actor-network theory grew up in science and technology studies as an attempt to understand 'materiality' - the ways in which social and technical relations are embodied and perform themselves in the ordering and re-ordering of texts, artefacts, and the natural world. It assumes that relations ramify through such heterogeneous materials in the form of a 'seamless web' - and indeed that for many purposes, for instance in the 'heterogeneous engineering' of entrepreneurs or scientists, the distinction between [for instance human and non human] is irrelevant") (John Law, Lancaster U.) |
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Ascending Node (zine, "newsletter on space-related events," 1994-1998) (Guy McArthur) |
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Michael Bauwens, "Deus ex Machina vs. Electric Gaia" (CMC Magazine, April 1997) |
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Wendy Wahl (U. Vermont) "Bodies and Technologies: Dora, Neuromancer, and Strategies of Resistance" (essay from Postmodern Culture 1993) |
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Nannette Brenner (U. Texas, Arlington), The Cyborg of the Main Battle Tank: A Tool Of Human Engineering (Enculturation) |
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Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U. |
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Global Urban Research Unit, U. Newcastle (formerly the Centre for Urban Technology, which is now a subgroup of the Research Unit) |
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John R. R. Christie (U. Leeds), "A Tragedy for Cyborgs" (1993) ("This essay therefore adopts strategies whose overall effect is to extend the relays of cyborg imagery well beyond those postulated in [Haraway's] "Manifesto," in order to recognize the cultural and political complexity of cyborg semiosis, and to grasp the aporias that such extension produces for Haraway's writing") (Configurations) |
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Critical Art Ensemble, (9/94 essay from CTHEORY) |
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Cultural Studies of Science and Technology ("This page [a collection of links] is devoted to the cultural studies of science and technology, i.e. the understanding of the mutual relations between culture and science and technology. . .") Phoebe Sengers (Center for Art and Media Technology, Germany) |
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Cyborgs (Karla Tonella / Communication Studies, U. Iowa) |
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DevelopNet News: On-Line News and Views on Technology Transfer in International Development (newsletter) |
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Digital Media: Technology, Postmodernism and Other Stuff (annotated guide to online resources) (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa) |
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Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group The DC-MRG brings together faculty and graduate students from the University of California system who are engaged with new digital technologies and the ways they impact humanistic studies and the arts.
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Samuel Ebersole (Regent U., Virginia), |
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"Media Determinism in Cyberspace" (Hypertext essay; Sections include: "A Brief History of Technology," "Early Philosophers of Technology," "The Neutrality of Technology," and "Philosophical Assumptions of Cyberspace") |
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Electric Living in Canada (very graphics intensive zine) (Vancouver Film School) |
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Freebase: Online Journal of Culture and Technology |
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David Goodstein, "Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates" |
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Donna Haraway and Cyborgs |
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Border Crossings: Cyborgs (Karla Tonella, U. Iowa) |
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Carolyn Keen on Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto" (Jim English, U. Pennsylvania) |
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John R. R. Christie (U. Leeds), "A Tragedy for Cyborgs" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Communication Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs (Karla Tonella, U. Iowa) |
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Donna Haraway, Avenali Professor for 2003-2004 (includes a link to the webcast of her Avenali lecture ) (U. California, Berkeley) |
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Donna Haraway Biblio (Elisa Kay Sparks, Clemson U.) |
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Donna Haraway Bibliography (Laura Sells, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) |
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Donna Haraway - Professor of Feminist Theory and Technoscience - Biography (faculty page) (European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland) |
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Donna Haraway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Donna J. Haraway Resources at Erratic Impact's Feminism Web (Philosophy Research Base, Erratic Impact) |
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William Grassie (Temple U.), "Cyborgs, Trickster, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion" (1996) |
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Donna Haraway, "Chapter 9: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1991) (from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature) (Reproductive Technologies Web: RT21, Harvard U.) |
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Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991) (Stanford U.) |
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Donna Haraway, "The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others" (1992) (Stanford U.) |
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P. K. Jamison (Indiana U.), "Contradictory Spaces: Pleasure and the Seduction of the Cyborg Discourse" (1994) (Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture) |
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Hari Kunzru, "You Are Cyborg" (1997) (Wired News) |
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Language Visualization and Multilayer Text Analysis ("prototype tool that can study language/discourse phenomena in three-dimensional space") (Cornell U.) |
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Notes on Donna Haraway (Krista Scott-Dixon) |
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Ode to Donna Haraway -- Voxygen (Laura Sells, Louisiana State U.) |
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Gary A. Olson, "Writing, Literacy and Technology: Toward a Cyborg Writing" (1996) (JAC, Georgia State U.) |
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PopCultures.com: Theorists and Critics: Donna Haraway (Sarah J. Zupko) |
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Reverse Transcript - Hyperlink to Donna Haraway (Tsuyoshi Toyofuku) |
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Swirl: Donna Haraway (Southern Oregon U.) |
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Robert M. Young, "Science, Ideology, and Donna Haraway" (1992) (U. Sheffield) |
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Thomas E. Hart, "The Language of Popular Scientific Discourses" |
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Larry Hinds, "The Collision Between Western Civilization and Advanced Science and Technology" |
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Journal of Scientific Exploration ("The Society and its Journal provide a critical forum of rationality and observational evidence for the often strange claims at the fringes of science...") |
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Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1994) ("This book describes how technology is becoming biological, decentralized and distributed") |
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Luddites And Neo-Luddism |
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King Ludd and the Resistance to Technology (online conference held 9/23/95 on U. Virginia IATH-MOO; this gopher archive of the conference includes pre-conference statements by well-known panelists and "tapes" of the proceedings) |
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Luddites On-Line |
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Homepage ("the only place in cyberspace devoted exclusively to luddites, technophobes and other refugees from the Information Revolution. Our usuer-friendly graphic interface allows you to discuss strategies for undermining the growing cybourgeoisie a |
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Luddite Links |
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New Luddite Society |
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Thomas Pynchon, "Is it O.K. to Be a Luddite?" (1984) (New York Times Book Review / Spermatikos Logos) |
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David Wright (KQED-FM / KRON-TV), "Technophobia: A Small Band of Hopefuls Battles the Giant of Progress" (1995) |
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Victor Margolin (U. Illinois, Chicago), "The Politics of the Artificial" (1995) (philosophical approach to the concept of artifice that includes discussion of William Gibson, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, and other postmodern writers) |
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Marist College English Web: Postmodern Theory, Cultural Studies, and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh) |
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McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Toronto |
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Melissa McMahon, "Beauty: Machinic Repetition in the Age of Art" (1996) (Globe E) |
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Netfuture: Technology and Human Responsibility (weekly newsletter that submits the net to ethical, social, political critique) (Steve Talbott) |
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Nirvanet (sophisticated, multimedia French site devoted to technoculture; in English, French, or Spanish) |
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North Carolina State U. Program on Science, Technology, & Society (Patrick Hamlett, NCSU) |
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Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities (rich, sophisticated introduction to "the various discourses, disciplines, media and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45" |
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Avital Ronell |
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Avital Ronell Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. Konstanz) |
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Alexander Laurence, Interview (1994) |
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Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan U.), "What Are Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge?" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Science as Culture Forum (Robert M. Young, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield) |
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Science, Technology and Society (metapage) (Catherine McCabe, Melanie O'Neil, & Karen Rowswell, U. Alberta ) |
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Science, Technology and Society (metapage of science, technology, and society resources) (North Chadderton School, Oldham, Lancashire, England) |
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Sci-Tech & Cultural Studies: Depts., Programs, &Amp; Centers |
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BEST Home Page (Board of European Students of Technology) |
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Stanford University Program in Science, Technology and Society |
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Speed (theory, technology, media, and society zine) |
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Barbara Maria Stafford (U. Chicago), "Voyeur or Observer? Enlightenment Thoughts on the Dilemmas of Display" (1993) (on microscopy and the cultural history of vision) (Configurations) |
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Survival Research Laboratories ("creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations. . . . Each [SRL] performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions |
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The Technology Page |
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Homepage (Developmental Technologies, Inc.) |
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Selected Links: |
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Business & Technology |
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Education & Technology |
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Emerging Technology |
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Information Technology |
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Nanotechnology |
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Obsolesence |
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People & Technology |
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Science & Technology |
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The Technological Risk List |
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Technology Around the World |
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Technology Reference Sources |
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Wild Technology Links |
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Technology Listserv Archives (philosophical discussions of technology) (Spoons Collective) |
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Technology Review:: MIT's National Magazine of Technology & Policy |
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Technomads |
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Nomadic Research Labs ("created by Steven K. Roberts, who has been a technomad for the past 13 years -- wandering 17,000 miles around the U.S. on various versions of a computerized recumbent bicycle known as Behemoth") (Faun Skyles) |
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Pages of Folks from Technomads ("technomads" are defined as nomadic people who carry major tech along with them; e.g., Steve Mann) (Kathy Bilton) |
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Recumbents and Technomadics (Kathy Bilton) |
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Technomadness / Nomads (catalogue of works in technonomadism and nomadism from Freecyb; in French with some English) |
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UCSB Transcriptions Project An NEH-funded curricular development and research initiative started in 1998 by the English Dept. at UC Santa Barbara to focus on literary study and information society. The goal of is to demonstrate a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities discipline. Transcriptions seeks to "transcribe" between past and present understandings of what it means to be a literate, educated, and humane person.
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Useless Technology (CTHEORY) |
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U.S. Nuclear Accidents (allen lutins, Binghamton U.) |
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WITI: International Network of Women in Technology |
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Robert M. Young (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway" (1992) |
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Cyberculture |
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General Resources |
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TAP: The Ada Project ("tapping internet resources for women in computer science") |
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ART+COM ("an interdisciplinary group concerned with the integration of computer technology, communication and design") |
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Association for Computers and the Humanities |
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Bibliography on Chat Communication ("the subject of this bibliography are contributions on Computer-Mediated Communication, that deal with communication in webchats and IRC (partially also MUDs and MOOs) under the perspective of linguistics, communication research and/or social sciences") (in English and German) (Michael Beisswenger) |
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Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U. |
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CSTT Homepage ("especially concerned with themes that foreground the special nature of contemporary technology-organisation systems") |
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CSTT Publications |
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CITASA- Communication and Informations Technologies Section, American Sociological Association |
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CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) Information Sources (extensive, well-organized site covering the Internet, cyberculture, technology, etc.) (John December, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY / December Communications, Inc.) |
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C|Net Online: The Computer Network (features, news, and resources covering computers and cyberculture) |
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Computer Mediated Communication Resources ("here, you'll find organized and annotated links to Web sites about information sources related to CMC technology, use, and study, with an emphasis on Internet-based CMC") (John December) |
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Corante ("Tech News Filtered Daily") (links to numerous weblogs and columns) |
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CTHEORY ("international journal of theory, technology and culture") |
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Cyberculture and Theory (links to major sites on the topic) (trAce) |
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Cybermind: Philosophy and Psychology of Cyberspace (Web page of the Cybermind list) |
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CyberReader Page (support page for Victor J. Vitanza's anthology of readings on cyberspace and virtual reality) |
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Cybersociology Page (Patrick Macartney, U. Leeds) |
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Cyberstudies Webring |
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Digitale Film Directory (This directory is divided into seven sub-directories: Studios on the Internet; Independant Film Makers; Electronic Publications; Enhanced Cinemas; Digital Cinema Experiments; Cinema History; and Other Internet Film Resources) |
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Digital Media: Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs, and Virtual Realities (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa) |
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Fragment.nl: Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources (Frank Schaap) |
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Anthea Fraser Gupta (U. Leeds), "The Internet & the English Language" (1997) |
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Rich Holeton, Composing Cyberspace (McGraw Hill Higher Education) |
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Information Literacy |
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K. Alix Hayden (U. Calgary), "Information Literacy" |
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Information Literacy Definitions (Information Literacy Group, U. Calgary) |
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Information Literacy Bibliography (K. Alix Hayden, U. Calgary) |
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Information Policy Resources (Deep Collection Of Resources Organized By Nation Or Region; Includes Links To Official Policy Statements, Organizations, Surveys, Essays, Etc.) (International Federation Of Library Associations And Institutions) |
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Asia-Pacific |
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Canada |
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Community Networking |
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Copyright and Intellectual Property |
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Information Policy: Europe (IFLANET) |
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G-7 Information Society Resources |
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General Resources |
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U.S. |
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Information Technology & Telecoms (Daniel Chandler, U. Wales, Aberystwyth) |
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Internet and Networking: Surveys and Statistics (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) |
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Internet Culture (well-organized and -selected page of links) (Martin Ryder, U. Colorado, Denver) |
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MOO Studies |
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Netfuture: Technology and Human Responsibility (weekly newsletter that submits the net to ethical, social, political critique) (Steve Talbott) |
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Netlab (Sociology, U. Toronto) |
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New Media Studies (companion site to Web.Studies 2004) (this site has been designed for the study of new media, with a strong emphasis on the Web, and contains articles, book, website reviews, web design guides, internet information, and more.) (David Gauntlett, U. of Leeds) |
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PEW Internet & American Life Project ("The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces original, academic-quality reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project also aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of essential, relevant data and timely discussions of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world") |
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Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies |
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Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Homepage (David Silver, U. Washington) |
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Course List:- Cyberculture (extensive set of links to syllabis and course pages ) (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies; David Silver, U. Washington) |
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Cylberculture Studies Book Reviews (monthly review) |
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Cyberculture: An Annotated Bibliography (David Silver, U. Washington) |
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Featured Links- Cyberculture Studies |
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Internet Interviews |
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Resources in Culture of Interest to Information Professionals (annotated bibliography) (Joe Ryan) |
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Sociology of Cyberspace Links (U. Sydney) |
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Teaching Social Issues of Computing: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources (Tom Jewett, Rob Kling) |
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U.S. National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library |
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Virtual Society: The Social Science of Electronic Technologies (Steve Woolgar, Oxford) |
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WayBack Machine (Internet Archive) (massive archive of Web sites launched on Oct. 24th, 2001, that is designed to provide access to Web pages as they existed in the past; searching for a site returns dated versions starting about fall 1996) |
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WebStars: Virtual Reality (metapage of resources in theory & practice of virtual reality) |
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Yahoo! Society and Culture: Cyberculture |
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Projects, Sites |
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Alan Turing Page (Andrew Hodges) |
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Artificial Culture: Synthetic Anthropology (Nicholas Gessler, UCLA) |
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Bodies, INCorporated (sophisticated multimedia, interactive environment in which users construct virtual bodies and "incorporate" as part of an exploration of the interface between art and corporate zones) (Victoria Vesna et al., U. California, Los Angeles) |
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BotSpot (Bots and intelligent agents on the net) |
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Building Authentic Communities in Virtual Spaces (Web site for the Collaborative Writing Worshop about computers & community at the Computers and Writing Conference, El Paso, May 18, 1995) |
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Caltech Infospheres Project ("Traditional organizations with fixed sets of people and resources, carrying out fixed sets of activities, are giving way to fluid [virtual] organizations that link different groups of people and resources temporarily to carry out missions as they a |
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Coded Messages: CHAINS (conceptual hypermedia project that raises "questions about the power of language and communications in traditional and post-modern society" by connecting "our friends in Ghana (where there is no Internet service at all) and Web surfers . . .") |
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Consumptive Writing (A Fatal Strategy) (unique site that presents an anti-"process" approach to the philosophy and practice of composition teaching on the basis of cross-disciplinary reflections centered on Baudrillard's philosophy) (Matthew Levy, U. Texas, Arlington) |
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The CyberCulture, Identity, and Gender Resources Page (A metapage in the interactive database mode that offers compiled research on such issues as Role Playing MUDs and the performance of gender, as well as questions regarding "the body," the "Real" and the "Virtual." The site offers a large number of a |
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The Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory Web (George Landow, National U. of Singapore)," |
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ISEA: Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts |
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Education and Technology Resources (Virginia Montecito, George Mason U.) ("Welcome to my Web site with education, technology, and scholarship resources for faculty and students. For example, I have "how-to" guides for computer-mediated communication and resources on distance learning, |
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Edward_Amiga ("Edward_Amiga is a hypernovel, let's say a linear fiction integrating programation as a new language. You need to read french and have the JavaScript option of your browser enabled.") (Fred Romano, France) |
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Eliza (the famous early bot designed by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT for research into natural language conversation with computers; site allows user to "chat" with Eliza through Web forms) |
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FleshFactor: AAS Electronica Festival Netsymposium (1997 online symposium on the technological evolution of the human "individual") |
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Future Culture Home Page ("FutureCulture is deliberately broad in scope when it comes to the topics discussed, but a quick list might include: Technoculture/new edge/cyberculture; Cyberspace & the Internet; Virtual reality; The computer underground; Cyberpunk (literary and c |
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The Geography of Cyberspace ("resources for measuring and mapping the geography of an embryonic Cyberspace [i.e. the Internet and WWW]") (Martin Dodge) |
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Headmap ("The headmap manifesto is a sequence of texts dealing with the social and cultural implications of location aware devices") (Ben Russell) |
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Honoria in Ciberspazio ("Th[is] cyberspace opera . . . is a romantic musical comedy. It is about a time when clones of the mythic postmodern cyborg creature attempted to seduce various human internet users.When isolated and lonely computer hackers entreat the great oracle") |
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IMMAGINA/E - Surreal weirdness (Guido Poggi) ("Surreal computer-art image gallery; subtopics diverse, ranging from "Surrealities" and "Humananimals" to "Bjork" ") |
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The Information Economy: The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues (Hal R. Varian, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley) |
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Information Society Links (John McCann and John Gallagher) |
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The Informedia Project ("research initiative at Carnegie Mellon University funded by the NSF, DARPA, NASA and others, that studies how multimedia Digital Libraries can be established and used. Informedia is building a multimedia library that will contain over a thousand ho |
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Internet Love Fest (server/publisher of "cyberspace-only material and experimental HTML; the theme is the emergence of intelligent life after humans") |
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IT & Telecoms (includes links for CMC, information tech and gender, identity and the Internet, IT and society, virtual communities, etc.) (Daniel Chandler) |
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Kurzweil Cyber Art ("we create software that creates art") |
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George Legrady (UC Santa Barbara) |
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Making Visible the Invisible ("apermanent commission for the Seattle Public Library designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas. The project focuses on data flow and the library as a data exchange center where the circulation of books can be made visible and expressed statistically") |
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Pockets Full of Memories ("The audience contributes to an archive by digitizing an image of an object in their possession. The sum of the archive of objects is continuously being organized by a Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm, positioning objects of similar descriptions near each other. The archive of objects is projected on a large gallery wall and accessed on the internet"; see also the data archive accumulated from visitors to versions of the exhibition between 2001 and 2005) |
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Les Chroniques de Cybérie (in French) |
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The Lieberary: Henry Lieberman's On-Line Library (MIT Media Lab researcher's projects in applying artificial intelligence to interactive graphical interfaces) |
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Liquid Information Organization (site dedicated to envisioning a future, more "fluid" integration of information; the "liquid information environment" is "total integration, and not just an information tsunami. . . . It's where you can edit inform |
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Mary Flanagan (Hunter C.), Home Page ("links to creative work, shows / events, writing, cv, course materials, and my research projects for girls, including the RAPUNSEL project and "The Adventures of Josie True" funded by the NSF") |
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Michael Heim's The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality ("a philosophical endeavor initiated by Michael Heim"; includes seminars, books, and conferences on digital and virtual Reality) |
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Neo-Nomad (blog dedicated to the technonology, culture, and design of "mobilities") (Yasmine Abbas) |
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Postmodernism, Interactivity, Cyberculture, and Art: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.) |
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The Robot Wisdom Pages (Jorn Barger) |
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The Sociology of Netnews: Bozos and Flamers, Potentials and Trends (Jorn Barger) |
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Survival Research Laboratories ("creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations. . . . Each [SRL] performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between |
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Takedown (site that details the hunt for hacker Kevin Mitnick (once "America's most-wanted computer outlaw") from the perspective of Tsutomu Shimomura) (Vicious Fishes Web Design & Dan Meriwether) |
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Technology: Cognition, Computers, and the Internet: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.) |
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Technomads |
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Nomadic Research Labs ("He's been a technomad for the past 11 years, wandering 17,000 miles around the U.S. on various versions of a computerized recumbent bicycle") (Steve K. Roberts) |
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Pages of Folks from Technomads ("technomads" are defined as nomadic people who carry major tech along with them; e.g., Steve Mann) (Kathy Bilton) |
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Recumbents and Technomadics (Kathy Bilton) |
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Technorealism |
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Technorealism homepage ("technorealism demands that we think critically about the role that tools and interfaces play in human evolution and everyday life. Integral to this perspective is our understanding that the current tide of technological transformation, while important and powerful, is actually a continuation of waves of change that have taken place throughout history") |
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"A Benign Declaration Treated as Revolutionary" (1998) (article on technorealism; requires free subscription) (New York Times on the Web) |
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Michael Kinsley, "Goldilocks in Cyberspace" (1998) (commentary on technorealism) (Slate) |
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The Turing Test Homepage ("contains all the information that we could find concerning the so called 'Turing Test' ") (Ayse Pinar Saygin) |
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The Virtual City (Rice Design Alliance 1994 lecture series on the impact of technology on the concept of the city) |
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Xanadu Home Page (Ted Nelson's vision of hypertext=universe) (Andrew Pam) |
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Writings, Interviews |
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Alexander (Sasha) Chislenko's Home Page |
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John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt (RAND Foundation), "Cyberwar & Netwar: Warfare Between Networks" (1993) (on paradigm shift in military science to information war) |
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Paul Baran Rand Memorandum RM-3420-PR, Aug. 1964 (in which Baran sketches his concepts and topographies of networks) (Rand Corp.) |
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Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology" ("The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as Wired and Mondo 2000 as well as the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and many others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, thirty-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. . . .") |
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John Perry Barlow |
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John Perry Barlow, "Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net" (1996) |
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John Perry Barlow "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996) |
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Shannon Bell, "Kate Bornstein: A Transgender Transsexual Postmodern Tiresias" (CTHEORY) |
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Dean Blobaum (U. Chicago Press), Review of Sven Birkerts's The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age (1995) |
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Rosi Braidotti (U. Utrecht) |
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"Cyberfeminism with a Difference" (1996) ("I will first of all situate the question of cyber-bodies in the framework of postmodernity, stressing the paradoxes of embodiment . . . ") |
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Kathleen O'Grady (Cambridge U.), "Nomadic Philosopher: A Conversation with Rosi Braidotti" (1995) (Women's Education des femmes), U. Iowa Libraries) |
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Sandra Braman (U. Illinois), "Art in the Net" (essay on the sociocultural relation of the arts to information society) (Undercurrents) |
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Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech) |
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Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech), "Cyberspace is not Disneyland: The Role of the Artist in a Networked World" (1995) |
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"Gender Swapping on the Internet" (1993) |
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Amy Bruckman and Michael Resnick "The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and Professional Community" (1995) |
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"The Turing Game: Exploring Identity in an Online Environment" (2001) ( Convergences) |
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William S. Burroughs, The Electronic Revolution (Malcolm Humes) |
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Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945) (HTML version of the canonical essay on hypertext; originally published in The Atlantic Monthly) |
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V. Carchidi, "Come Into My Web: Literary Postcolonialism in the Information Technology Age" (1997) |
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Daniel Chandler (U. Wales, Aberystwyth) |
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"Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web" (1998) |
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Lynn Cherny (Stanford U.), "Gender Differences in Text-Based Virtual Reality" (1994) |
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Chris Chesher, "Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992" (1994)" (cultural studies approach to "cyberspace" and "virtual reality") (Cultronix) |
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Cyberculture: An Annotated Bibliography (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies) |
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Charles Deemer "The Humanities in Cyberspace How the Internet is Changing Teaching and Scholarship in the Humanities" (Oregon Humanities magazine) (1994) |
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Mark Dery, "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs" |
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Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" (1993) (Village Voice, McGraw-Hill Higher Education) |
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Andreas Dieberger (IBM Almaden Research Center) |
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Navigation in Textual Virtual Environments Using a City Metaphor (dissertation; includes abstract and download link) (1994) |
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Publications |
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Social connotations of spatial metaphors and their influence on (direct) social navigation (1999) |
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"Where did all the people go? A collaborative Web space with social navigation information" (2000) |
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Judith S. Donath (MIT Media Lab), "Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community" (1996) |
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Samuel Ebersole (Regent U., Virginia), |
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Brief History of Technology |
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Early Philosophers of Technology |
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The Neutrality of Technology |
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Philosophical Assumptions of Cyberspace |
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Elizabeth Reed Steere "Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat" (1991) (thesis) |
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Fred Evans, "Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy" (long essay which argues that "the Internet's status as a "virtual" rather than actual reality (its status as a serendipitous form of what phenomenologists call an epochéor a "placing within brackets" of our standard beliefs) reveals some of the more |
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Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser U.) |
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Andrew Feenberg Homepage |
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"Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization" (2002) |
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Questioning Technology (1999) |
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"The Written World: On the Theory and Practice of Computer Conferencing" (1989) |
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Michael and Ronda Hauben, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (four of the eighteen chapters of this book are published here) (First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet) |
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N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA), "The Materiality of Informatics" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Michael Heim |
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Michael Heim Homepage ("a philosophical endeavor initiated by Michael Heim"; includes seminars, books, and conferences on digital and virtual reality) |
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Michael Heim Articles
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Michael Heim Books
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Michael Heim, Deep Cyberspace (1997) (seminar) |
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Oliver Hockenhull, "Towards a Furious Philosophy of the Discrete" |
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Norman N. Holland (U. Florida), "The Internet Regression'" |
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Jane Hudson "Cybervamp" |
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Internet Interviews (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies) |
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Nancy Kaplan (U. Of Baltimore) |
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E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print (hypertext essay) |
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Literacy and Technology: Beyond the Book (an analysis with a succinct set of hypertext indices) (Xerox PARC August 25, 2000) |
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Jon Katz |
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"Birth of a Digital Nation" (1997) |
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"The Digital Citizen" (1997) (""The First in-depth poll finds Digital Citizens are optimistic, tolerant, civic-minded, and radically committed to change") (Wired) |
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Kevin Kelly |
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Kevin Kelly "God is the Machine" (2002) ("a mind-bending meditation on the transcendent power of digital computation")(Wired) |
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Kevin Kelly New Rules for the New Economy: 10 ways the network economy is changing everything (1998) |
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Kevin Kelly Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1994) (1994) ("This book describes how technology is becoming biological, decentralized and distributed") |
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland) |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Homepage |
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Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography (in-progress hypertext and VRML dissertation being written "real-time" on the net; concerns the work of textuality theorist/artist Johanna Drucker) |
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum "Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformations in the Z-Buffer" (1998) |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland) "Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Virtual Texts are Made Of" (2003) |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland) "Vector Futures: New Paradigms for Imagining the Humanities" (pdf) |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland) "Virtuality and VMRL: Software Studies after Manovich" (2003) |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland) "A White Paper on Information" (1998) |
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Peter Kollock (U. California, Los Angeles) |
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"The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace" (1999) |
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Peter Kollock and Marc Smith, "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities" (1996) |
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Mark Smith and Peter Kollock (Univ. Cali, Los Angeles) Communities in Cyberspace (1998) |
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Arthur Kroker |
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"Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan (CTHEORY) |
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Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker "Code Warriors: Bunkering In and Dumbing Down" (CTHEORY) |
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Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinsten "The Hyper-Texted Body, Or Nietzsche Gets a Modem" (CTHEORY) |
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George P. Landow (Brown U.) |
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George Landow Home Page (including "Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory" site) |
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Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (1993) |
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Review of Jay David Bolter's Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, & the History of Writing |
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Review of James Nyce and Paul Kahn's From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush & the Mind's Machine |
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John M. Lawler (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Metaphors We Compute By" (1987) |
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Elizabeth Lane Lawley (U. Alabama), "Computers and the Communication of Gender" |
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Jacques Leslie, "The Impact of E-Mail" (1993) (HotWired) |
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Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law) |
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Lawrence Lessig homepage |
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Lawrence Lessig "Code is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace" (2000) |
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Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law) "The Laws of Cyberspace" (1998) |
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Lawrence Lessig blog |
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Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law) Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lockdown Culture and Control Creativity (2004) (resources related to the book and link to full text of the book) |
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Peter Ludlow (U. Michigan) |
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Peter Ludlow (U. Michigan) "Crypto-Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias" (2001) |
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Peter Ludlow (U. Michigan), ed., High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace (1996) (excerpts) ("drafts" of most of the essays in the volume by various authors; includes a wealth of links to supplementary readings) |
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Timothy W. Luke (Virginia Tech U.), From Analogue to Digital Fordism |
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The Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers (manifesto in imitation of Umberto Boccioni's 1910 "Manifesto of the Futurist Painters") (text file) |
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Michael Maranda (U. Rochester), "Faking it in Cyberspace: Boys will be Girls will be Boys" (1994) |
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Victor Margolin (U. Illinois, Chicago), "The Politics of the Artificial" (1995) (philosophical approach to the concept of artifice that includes discussion of William Gibson, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, and other postmodern writers) |
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María Elena Martínez Torres (U. California, Berkeley), "The Internet: Post-Modern Struggle by the Dispossessed of Modernity" (1997) ("The paradox of the revolution in technology that took world capitalism to a new stage of structure and organization-globalization-is that exactly the same technology has also made possible the creation of a counter-hegemonic movement, the global ci |
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Jamie McClelland (Community Technology Review), "Public Space in Cyberspace" |
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Chris McDonald (U. British Columbia), "The Ethics of Web Site Engineering" (1995) |
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Shannon McRae (U. Washington), "Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text, and the Virtual Body" (1995) |
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Gordon Meyer & Jim Thomas, (N. Illinois Univ. Dekalb), "The Baudy World of the Byte: A Postmodernist Interpretation of the Computer Underground" |
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Adrian Mihalache, "The Postmodernity of Cyberspace" (2000) (Spark-Online) |
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Hugh Miller (Nottingham Trent U., UK), "The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet" (1995) (includes a typology of WWW personal home pages) |
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Steve Mizrach (Florida International U.) |
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Homepage (topics include: telecom and society, hacking and the computer underground, technological subcultures, technology and culture, science and technology studies, ethnostudies) |
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"Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures" (essay using subcultural studies approach to discuss "hackers," "techno/ravers," and "modern primitives") |
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Steve Mizrach "Natives on the Electronic Frontier" (dissertation) |
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Stuart Moulthrop (U. Baltimore) |
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Stuart Moulthrop (U. Baltimore) "404: Doubting the Web" (2000) |
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Stuart Moulthrop (U. Baltimore) "Misadventure: Future Fiction and the New Networks" (1999) (Style) |
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Stuart Moulthrop Home Page |
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Nicholas Negroponte (MIT) |
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Nicholas Negroponte's columns for Wired |
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Nicholas Negroponte (MIT Media Lab), Being Digital (1995) |
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Adam T. Perzynski (Case Western Reserve U.) "The Internet and the Theories of Jürgen Habermas" |
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Mark Pesce, "Final Amputation: Pathogenic Ontology in Cyberspace" (1993) |
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Mark Poster (U. California, Irvine) |
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Mark Poster Homepage |
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Essays
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Interviews
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Neil Postman, "Informing Ourselves to Death" (1990) |
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Mitchel Resnick (Mass. Inst. of Technology) |
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Mitchel Resnick Homepage |
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Mitchel Resnick (MIT) "Beyond the Centralized Mindset" (1996) |
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Mitchel Resnick (MIT) "Changing the Centralized Mind" (1994) |
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Mitchel Resnick (MIT) "Learning About Life" (1994) |
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Mitchel Resnick (MIT) "Behavior Construction Kits" (1993) |
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Mitchel Resnick (MIT) "Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age" (2003) |
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with Brian Silverman, "Exploring Emergence: An Active Essay" (1996) |
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Howard Rheingold |
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Howard Rheingold, "21st: Mark Dery Achieves Escape Velocity" (on "post-humanism") (Salon) |
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Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community |
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Smart Mobs ("a Website and Weblog about Topics and Issues discussed in the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold") |
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Tim Rohrer (U. Oregon), "Feelings Stuck in a GUI Web or; Metaphors we compute by: bringing magic into interface design |
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David Ronfeldt (RAND Foundation), "Cyberocracy, Cyberspace, and Cyberology: Political Effects of the Information Revolution" |
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Ken Sanes, Transparency (site featuring essays by a former newspaper columnist and freelance writer on cultural studies and cyberculture) |
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Simon Schaffer, "Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System" |
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Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes (Fielding Inst.), "Information Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment Proposals for a New Curriculum" (1996) |
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Steven Shaviro (U. Washington), Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book) (1995-1997) |
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John Shirley webpage |
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Steve Silberman "Black Flight to the Net" ("The author of a new study reporting a US$53 million surge in high-tech purchases by African American families in 1996 says that the rush of blacks to the online world is being driven partly by a hunger to find replacements for news and programming") (Wired) |
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Marc Smith and Peter Kollock, eds., Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organizaton (1997) (table of contents) |
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Morten Soby (U. Oslo) "Possessed by Virtual Reality" |
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Alan Sondheim Internet Text |
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Elizabeth Reed Steere Cultural Formations in Text-Based Virtual Realities (1994) (MA thesis) |
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Stewart Brand Interview, June 15, 1995 (on the Internet as a "gift economy") (WGBH Educational Foundation) |
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Allucquere Rosanne/Sandy Stone (U. Texas, Austin) |
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Allucquere Rosanne/Sandy Stone Homepage |
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A Conversation with Sandy Stone (SPEED, U. California, Irvine) |
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Sandy Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" (1988) |
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Allucquere Rosanne Stone Interview for MONDO 2000 (1993) |
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Transgender |
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Allucquere Rosanne Stone, "Violation and Virtuality: Two Cases of Physical and Psychological Boundary Transgressions and Their Implications" (1993) |
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Allucquere Rosanne Stone, "What Vampires Know: Transsubjection and Transgender in Cyberspace" (1993) |
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John Suler (Rider University) The Psychology of Cyberspace |
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Eugene Thacker (Georgia Inst. of Tech) |
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Eugene Thacker Homepage |
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LifeScience - Fakeshop Internet Art Exhibits (description of art exhibit) (Siggraph 2000 Art Gallery) |
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Eugene Thacker (Georgia Inst. of Tech) Appropriate Technology: Artificial Products, Mediation, and Streaming Media (explores Streaming Media via the thesis that it is essentially paradoxical due to the fact that it is defined by both presence and absence) |
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Eugene Thacker (Georgia Inst. of Tech) "Networks, Swarms, and Multitudes" (2004) (CTheory) |
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Eugene Thacker (Georgia Inst. of Tech) "This Quintessence of Your Blood" (1995) (Deleuze-inspired inter-hyper-meta-text essay) |
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Richard Thieme |
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Richard Thieme Homepage ("on the impact of computer technology on individuals, organizations, and society - including change management, organizational effectiveness, diversity, and techno/spirituality") (Richard Thieme) |
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Richard Thieme "Imaginary Gardens" (1999) ("reflections on techno/spirituality") |
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Richard Thieme Islands in the Clickstream ("weekly exploration of the impact of technology") |
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Kevin Lee Thomason |
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"The Binary Split: Race and Technology at the End of the 20th Century" ("how recent advances in information technology will affect this already divided country") (Seamless Website) |
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"Using Computer Generated Evidence" ("explores the use of computer animations in the courtroom") |
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Paul Treanor, "Why Telecity Projects Are Wrong" ("The EU now uses the name telecities for projects which were originally called freenets in the United States. They are also called digital cities, or telepolis. . . . Characteristic of telecity projects is the claim to provide some ki |
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Hoai-An Truong Gender Issues in Online Communications (essay by Bay Areas Women in Telecommunications) |
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Sherry Turkle (Mass. Inst. of Tech) |
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Sherry Turkle Homepage |
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Sherry Turkle (MIT) "When Parents Separate" |
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Sherry Turkle (MIT) "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" (1995) (adapted from her Life on the Screen) |
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Sherry Turkle (MIT) "What Are We Thinking About When We Are Thinking About Computers" (1999) |
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Sherry Turkle (MIT) "Who Am We?" (1999) ("We are moving from modernist calculation toward postmodernist simulation, where the self is a multiple, distributed system") (HotWired) |
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Umberto Eco's Analogy "Mac:DOS as Catholic:Protestant" (excerpts are from an English translation of Umberto Eco's back-page column, "La bustina di Minerva," in the Italian news weekly Espresso, September 30, 1994) |
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Willard Uncapher, "Between Local and Global: Placing the Mediascape in the Transnational Cultural Flow" (1992) (Word document) |
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John Unsworth (U. Virginia), "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality (Draft)" |
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Shmuel Vaknin "The Internet: A Message or a Medium -- An Interim Report About the Future of the Internet" (July 1997) |
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Paul Virilio |
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General Resources
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Secondary Literature
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Works & Interviews
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Ernst Von Glasersfeld (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) |
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"Cybernetics and the Art of Living" (1996) |
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The Incommensurability of Scientific and Poetic Knowledge -1994 |
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Gabriel Watson & Jason Brown (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Cultural Prosthetics: The Mutational Aesthetics of the Late Organic" (multimedia, hypertext work) (Speed) |
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Shawn P. Wilbur (Bowling Green State U.) |
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" 'Cyberpunks' to Synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?" (1995) |
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"Running Down the Meme: Cyberpunk, alt.cyberpunk, and the Panic of '93" (1994) |
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Robert M. Young (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Primitive Processes on the Internet" (1996) ("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") |
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Art & Technology (Theory And Resources)
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Net Art
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Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity Studies, Robotics, Nanotech
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Business & Technology
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Cybercensorship
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Cybercommunities
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Cyberethics, Cyberlaw, and Cyberprivacy
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Cybergender & Techgender
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Cyberpunk
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Economics Of The Net
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History Of Computing & Computer Museums
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Hypermedia Research & Theory
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Hypertext Research & Theory
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Interface Theory
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Politics Of The Net
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Organizations, Centers, Programs
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Course Syllabi & Teaching Resources (Cyberculture)
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Journals & Zines (Cyberculture)
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Listservs & Newsgroups (Cyberculture)
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Conferences & Calls for Papers (Cyberculture)
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Sci-Tech & Ethics/Law (See Also Cyberethics |
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Sci-Tech Ethics |
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Ethics Events Calendar (Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, De Paul U.) |
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Ethics in Science (Brian Tissue, Virginia Polytechnic U. & State U., Blacksburg, VA) |
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Monitors: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology |
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Science & Technology Ethics Resources on WWW (U. British Columbia) |
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Sci-Tech & Law |
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Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP (NY, LA, and Hartford based law firm with emphasis on high-technology and new-media law [as well as other areas]; page includes writings and links on the issues) |
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KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource (Jeffrey R. Kuester) |
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Medical Law Review |
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Science & Religion |
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American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science: Program of Dialogue Between Science and Religion |
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Center for Theology & the Natural Sciences (Berkeley, Calif.) |
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Arthur J. D'Adamo, Science Without Bounds: A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Mysticism |
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Billie Grassie (Temple U. / U. Penn.), Science and the Sacred (course) |
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Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Technology |
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IRAS: Institute of Religion in an Age of Science, Inc. |
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John Templeton Foundation (funding and projects to explore "spiritual and moral progress through the use of scientific methods") |
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Science & Spirit Resources |
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Science Fiction |
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General Sci-Fi Resources |
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Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist (bibliography) (M.A. Mohanraj) |
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Charlie's Virtual Anthology (Charles Stross) |
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Cyberpunk (see below) |
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Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia (Laura Quilter) |
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Intro to Hard SF for the non-SF Reader (bibliography) (M.A. Mohanraj) |
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Linköping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive |
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Procyon: The Academic Website for SF/ Fantasy Studies (John Collick, Waseda U., Japan) |
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Recommended Children's SF and Fantasy (bibliography) (M.A. Mohanraj) |
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Science Fiction Research Bibliography (Washington State U.) |
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Science Fiction (Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center) |
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Science Fiction Resource Guide (Chaz Baden) |
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The SciFi Site (Luis E. Fonseca & Mário Silva) |
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Speculative Fiction Clearinghouse (John Leavitt) |
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William J. Heron Collection of Speculative Fiction (Virginia Tech U.) |
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Societies & Organizations |
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Baltimore Science Fiction Society |
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LASFS: Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (Chaz Baden) |
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New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) |
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Northwest Science Fiction Society (NWSFS) |
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Authors & Works (Classic Through New Wave) |
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Iain Banks |
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Culture Shock: A Web Site Devoted to the Work of Iain Menzies Banks
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Creator of Tarzan |
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A Princess of Mars (Project Gutenberg) |
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Octavia Butler |
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Octavia E. Butler (bibliography) (Alpha Ralpha Boulevard) |
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The Unofficial Octavia Butler Page |
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Samuel R. Delaney |
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Samuel R. Delaney Page (Prost) |
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Samuel R. Delany Bibliography (Jay Schuster) |
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William Gibson |
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William Gibson Official Website |
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"Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)" (text of the limited-edition, read-once/self-destroying, art-book poem) |
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The Cyberpunk Project: William Gibson Page |
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Gibson Interviews and Speeches (Electronic Freedom Foundation) |
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Larry McCaffery, "An Interview with William Gibson" (1986) |
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Po-Mo SF: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Post-Modern Science Fiction (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.) |
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Resources on William Gibson (Jim Hobbs, Loyola U., New Orleans) |
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Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (Paul Brians, Washington State U.) |
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William Gibson Page (Patrick Ernzer) |
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William Gibson's Alien III Script |
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William Gibson's Blog |
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William Gibson Bibliography/Mediagraphy (S. Page) |
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The Yard Show (William Gibson Page) (William Gibson, Christopher Halcrow) |
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Frank Herbert |
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Dune: Geoffrey's List of Links |
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Isaac Asimov Home Page |
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J.G. Ballard (on English Literature: Contemporary page) |
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Joe Haldeman's Home Page |
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John Shirley Page |
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Kubrick on the Web (Stanley Kubrick films: info and links) (Barry Krusch) |
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Ursula K. Leguin |
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Jan M. Griffin, "Ursula LeGuin's Magical World of Earthsea" |
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The Unofficial Ursula K. Le Guin Page (Laura Quilter) |
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Ursula K. LeGuin Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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H. P. Lovecraft |
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The H. P. Lovecraft Archive (Donovan K. Loucks) |
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H. P. Lovecraft Library (William Johns) |
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The Scriptorium: H. P. Lovecraft (S. T. Joshi) |
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Official WWW Philip K. Dick FAQ (Joel Margot and Walter Flaschka) |
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Pat Cadigan Home Page (Chris Fowler) |
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Rudy Rucker Page (Mark/Space Interplanetary Review) |
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Neal Stephenson |
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Neal Stephenson Official Site |
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Metaweb ("Superficially, this site looks like a set of FAQs about a novel that I wrote entitled QUICKSILVER. As time goes on, we hope that it will develop into something a little more than that. We don't know how it will come out. It's an experiment") (wiki related to Stephenson's Baroque Cycle novels) |
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Cryptonomicon FAQ (FAQ written by Stephenson to address questions about Cryptomicon that would be of interest to cypherpunks) |
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Diamond Age ("The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson is centered on the repercussions of the education of young girls by means of a hypertext book. In an effort to capture Stephenson's sentiments, this site is set up similar to a book") |
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Neal Stephenson "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" (1999) |
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Robert Levine "Neal Stephenson Rewrites History" (2003) ( Wired ) |
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Neal Stephenson (wikipedia) |
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Bruce Sterling |
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Beyond the Beyond (Bruce Sterling's blog) |
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Bruce Sterling Texts on the Net (Kim Baumann Larsen / Molly Cumming, Rice Design Alliance) |
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Bruce Sterling Online Index ("a guide to every Bruce Sterling work on the web") (by fans for other fans) |
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Bruce Sterling "Cyberpunk in the Nineties" (1998) |
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The Hacker Crackdown |
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Mirrorshades Post Modern Archive
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The SchismMatrix (archive of Bruce Sterling's previous blog) |
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Bruce Sterling "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" (audio of 2004 speech) |
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Bruce Sterling (text of 1998 speech) |
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Viridian Design Movement ("Creating irresistible demand for a global atmosphere upgrade") |
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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The Tolkien Timeline (Darryl Friesen) |
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Cyberpunk |
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CCRU- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (cyberculture, hyperstition, Deleuze and Guattari, abstract culture, Lovecraft, Gibson, cybergothic, cyberpunk) |
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alt.cyberpunk FAQ |
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Pat Cadigan Home Page (Chris Fowler) |
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The Cyberpunk Project (includes extensive, well-developed "information database" with introductions and links to various cyperpunk topics) |
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William Gibson
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Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk (course) |
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Mirrorshades Post Modern Archive |
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Homepage of Mirrorshades Postmodern Archive ("Ever wonder where the authors of science fiction get their ideas? Judge the process for yourself ... If it's in MIRRORSHADES, it'll be science fiction in a year. In two years it will be in WIRED magazine. In three years teenage girls will be wearing it. In four years it'll be mentioned on CNN. In five years it'll be "discovered.""(Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky, Linda Castellani) |
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Bookstore (list of Sterling's major works and an annotated list of his 'picks') |
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Cyberpunk Page |
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Net Culture- Cyberpunk (Eletronic Frontier Foundation) |
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Rudy Rucker Page (Mark/Space Interplanetary Review) |
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Neal Stephenson
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Bruce Sterling
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Sci-Fi Publishers & Booksellers |
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Anubis Order Press: SciFi Stories & Related |
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Del Rey Books (sci-fi publisher) |
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Tor Books (sci-fi publisher) |
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Cinema-Related |
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2001: A Space Odyssey Internet Resource Archive (George DeMet) |
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Courses |
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Tonya Browning, Mafalda Stasi (U. Texas, Austin), Cyberpunk |
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Becky DiBiasio (Assumpton C., Mass.), Science Fiction Seminar |
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Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz) |
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The Critical Practices of Samuel R. Delaney (1997) |
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Out There: Science Fiction Practice and Theory |
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John Rickard (Bucknell U.), Machine Dreams: Science, Fiction, and Modern Culture |
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Sci-Tech Journals & Zines |
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Artificial Life Online (MIT Press) |
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Configurations |
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Electric Living in Canada (very graphics intensive) (Vancouver Film School) |
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Electronic Journals (WWWVL) |
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Ends and Means: Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society |
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ETCetera ("This site hosts the journal of ETCetera, the Early Typewriter Collectors Association--"America's Premier Source for Collecting Information"") (Darryl Rehr, Editor Emeretis; Chuck Dilts and Rich Cincotta, eds.) |
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Freebase: Online Journal of Culture and Technology |
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Steve Hitchcock, Leslie Carr, & Wendy Hall (U. Southampton, "A Survey of Science, Technology, and Medicine Online Journals, 1990-95" |
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Hyle: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry (full-text articles) |
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International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT) Newsletter |
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Journal of Electronic Defense (military electronic technology) (perform a search to get to a pre-member Journal tour) |
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Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (peer-reviewed) |
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Medical Law Review |
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Monitors: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology |
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Perforations (journal of culture & technology) |
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Perspectives on Science (tables of contents only) |
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Richmond Journal of Law & Technology |
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SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online ("Collection of scientific journals in a variety of subject areas, offering free access to full texts of articles and to indicators of usage and impact. Sponsored by FAPESP and BIREME.") |
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Science as Culture |
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South to the Future ("weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire") |
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Speed |
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Homepage (tech, media, society) |
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Speed (gopher gateway) |
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Speed 1.1: Myths of Electronic Living |
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Speed 1.2: Science and Re-Enchantment |
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Techne: Society for Philosophy & Technology -- A Quarterly Electronic Journal |
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Technology Review: MIT's National Magazine of Technology & Policy |
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Technology and Culture (The Journal for the Society of the History of Technology is a scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of technology in its relationships with society and culture. Although we are a journal of history, we incline toward an interdisciplin |
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TechnoScience: Newsletter of the Society for Social Studies of Science |
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Sci-Tech Course Syllabi |
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Anne Friedberg (U. Calif., Irvine), Theories of Technology and Visuality |
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Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk |
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Pamela E. Mack (Clemson U.) |
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History of American Technology ("survey of the history of American technology from the American industrial revolution to the present") |
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History, Technology & Society ("course uses the history of technology [mostly in 19th and 20th century America] to illustrate the role of engineers and the impact of technology on society") |
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John McCarthy (Stanford U.), "Technological Opportunities for Humanity" |
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Mark Poster (U. California, Irvine) |
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(with Anne Friedberg) "Theories of Technology and Culture" |
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Robert W. Seidel (U. Minnesota), Technology and Western Civilization: 19th and 20th Centuries |
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Society for Literature & Science On-Line Syllabi Database (searchable archive of syllabi; site includes a form that allows instructors to submit their syllabus) (Wayne Miller, UCLA) |
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Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses: Science, Math, & Technology (Joan Korenman, U. Maryland) |
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Science, Technology & Culture Conferences |
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Actor Network and After (Keele U., UK, July 10-11, 1997) ("Actor-network theory grew up in science and technology studies as an attempt to understand 'materiality' - the ways in which social and technical relations are embodied and perform themselves in the ordering and re-ordering of texts, artefact |
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Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body (April 24-26, 1997, U. Wisconson, Milwaukee) Thanks for assistance in maintaining this page to |
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