Monthly Archives: August 1999

Paper

I liked you paper and I wish that I had have heard you presenting it. I especially like the idea of embedding your arguments of masculinity and patriarchy within the culture in which we live. All too often the Gibsonesque drones look for an escape in that barren soul-less place called ‘cyberspace’. I saw one [...]

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Building a Multimedia Business Workshop

>If you want to learn how to become a success in the multimedia & >Internet industries, don’t miss the Building A Multimedia Business >Workshop. What is the definition of success?

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The Death of a Cyber-Hick..

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 11:00:46 AM Subject: The Death of a Cyber-Hick.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== (from a Tasmanian polemicist) This is a poem I lifted form Ted Hughes. I could be about cyber-hicks…or some other backward parochial cowboys. Cyberspace is like Texas, brash, crass, marginal full of new-money oil barrens who think that they [...]

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instructive critisism

Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999, 5:06:30 PM Subject: instructive critisism ===8<==============Original message text=============== Mr Alan, I do belive dear Allan that I was simply retturning an e-mail with your header still atttached. Sorrry that I didn’t correct it for you. The word “critisism” is the correct historical spelling of the word. It comes from the [...]

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Nerds on TV tonight

>Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet : Connecting The Suits Part 2 >Bob Cringely trains his well-informed eye on the intriguing history of the >Internet from its birth deep in the Pentagon to the cutting edge of the >World Wide Web today. Not sure if you actually saw this show, but I would [...]

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Calling a cave VR

>existence is based upon perception and >imagination,the receptive and active modes of our reality, intertwined >both consciously and subconsciously.. Relativism…very 60s. Gnosticism…Perhaps VR is the return of Jesus Christ. It is good to see religious studies back on the curriculum after a 50 year hiatus.

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Calling a cave VR

What I see as one of the great problems when discussing VR or other ephemeral terms such as interactive or ‘cyber’ or ‘multi’ or other computer-mediated expressions is that often the hermeneutic apparatus used to describe them is often little more than a wish list or projections. The potential for VR is huge, but the [...]

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Calling a cave VR

So much for the medium telling us about the world in which we actually live…

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