Exploring the Psyche
in Cyberspace

Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Experts worry that war on terrorism will be seen as crusade against Islam

By SALLY BUZBEE

Associated Press Writer

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush calls it a "crusade,'' a war against a new kind of evil. But using such a term, loaded with historical baggage about religious wars, could alienate moderate Muslims that the United States needs, some experts caution. "

It is becoming clear to me that the Language of the current times - and the psychological depths it taps into is of vital importance! Words of War leads to a war of words on the net, but can unleash forces that go wel beyond words. Good comments in this article by George Lakoff.

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Friday, September 07, 2001

http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/books/borsook/index.html

Cyberselfish Review

"Although Paulina Borsook has been writing about cyberculture for over a decade, most academics first discovered her via "The Memories of a Token: An Aging Berkeley Feminist Examines Wired," Borsook's chapter in the 1996 anthology Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Since then, Borsook has published a number of influential pieces in Salon and Mother Jones and, in 2001, published Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech. Aimée Morrison, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Alberta who is working on a dissertation exploring the personal computer in 1980s literary and popular culture, reviews Cyberselfish, followed by a rejoinder from the author."

Interesting discussion.

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Thursday, August 02, 2001

Books of the Month -- Index August 2001

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001. Reviewed by Katie Mondloch.

Scott McCloud, Zot!: Hearts and Minds. Published Online. Reviewed by Matt Wolf-Meyer.

Review Essay: William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1996) and William J. Mitchell, e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim -- But Not As We Know It" (MIT Press, 1999). Reviewed by Michael Gurstein.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2001

Visceral Technologies

While writing about Psyborgs I wanted to show how connected we are - our individual psyche and the collective - or that the ideas we have are integral to us and connected to their source - hence the desire to grab the Net to look-up - to be curious... I had the idea that ideas were close to the physical and that thought them we are tied to the cyberworlds. I looked up "visceral idea" in Google and found some interesting sites, notably this article from Marc Demarest. Lovely:

"Information wants out. And the computer wants in."

What a nice idea!
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Sunday, June 10, 2001

Mythology's "MythingLinks": links to Jung, Campbell, Pacifica Graduate Institute & related sites

MYTHING LINKS
An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies,
Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions
by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

A wealth of stuff to explore here.
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11 December, 1999

Walter Logemen, intro

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Romanticism On the Net Romanticism On the Net is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic studies.
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The C.G. Jung Page: Cyberwork: The archetypal imagination in new realms of ensoulment. An article by Cliff Bostock. Towards a Jungian Psychology of Technology

"Do the gods occupy cyberspace? Can soul be constructed in virtual reality?"

This is an excellent paper - one that defends the sort of position that Psybernet has had since its inception.

"Cliff Bostock is a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. This essay is a re-working of some of the ideas presented in an earlier paper "Cyberspace: Shadow of the Cultural Imagination?"which was inspired by a meeting between James Hillman and his class at Pacfifica."

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Theories and Metphors of Cyberspace- Abstracts

"Contrary to popular belief 'we can not think what we like', words and metaphors have a power of their own. I would draw on the ideas of Jung and Hillman and relate it to metaphors of cyberspace. An example I am pondering at the moment is the word 'depth' -- is the medium conducive to depth, or only breadth, and height?"

Familiar words -- to me!
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Monday, May 28, 2001

Loom2 Work in Progress

"Loom2 is a continuation of the work that began in Loom.
Our process involves both design sketching and computational sketching which work off of each other in a simultaneous process"

The people:

professor judith donath . danah boyd . hyun-yeul lee . dan ramage with additional support from ming-en cho and jonathan goler

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Visualizing Usenet Groups with Loom

This looks really nice!

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Monday, May 21, 2001

6.04: electrosphere The Hot New Medium Is ... Email

By David S. Bennahum

"List publishing is not merely information delivered to your mailbox, it's the devolution of mass media into the hands of everyday people. And it's growing faster than the Web."

I just found this again! One of my favourite Wired artiles ever - still relevant and right.
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The Rise and Fall of Wired. 6. The Sell-Out. By Stephen Downes

" What we were dreaming about was profound global transformation. We wanted to tell the story of the companies, the ideas, and especially the people making the Digital Revolution. Our heroes weren't politicians and generals or priests and pundits, but those creating and using technology and networks in their professional and private lives - you."

Also has a list of links to what he calls the GOOD articles in WiReD
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essays by Jim Esch An Introduction to the Critique of Wired Culture

The technology goes deep, but the human soul goes deeper.

copyright 2001 by James M. Esch ~ jimesch@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Brill's Content: Human Portals

"Giant Internet portals are struggling. News outfits have cut staffs. So why is the Net getting more interesting? A surge of independent-thinking Web enthusiasts -- the human portals -- are cataloging data and news on their sites and making us rethink how we get information."

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Tuesday, May 15, 2001

WebReview.com: Good Grief! The Highs and Lows of Usability Testing

The Kubla Ross stages applied to Web Site testing!
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Saturday, May 05, 2001

Books of the Month -- Index
"May 2001
David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Aimee Morrison and Kate O'Riordan.

Allan Lightman, The Diagnosis. Pantheon Books, 2000. Reviewed by Ana Viseu.

Byron Reeves & Clifford Nass, The Media Equation. How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. CSLI Publications, 1996. Reviewed by Mikael Jakobsson."
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TCUP

The Collective Unconscious - an interesting dream project. Being discussed in Psyber-L.
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Monday, April 30, 2001

OJR J.D.'s Web Watch: Party's Over for Web Freelancers

"Two short years ago we were partying away, Gatsby-like, in the Golden Age of Web Freelancing, a time when dozens of spry Internet startups with an insatiable hunger for content opened their fat wallets and showered talented young writers, editors and artists with bylines, beaucoup bucks and long overdue respect."

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The party is over idea is araound quite a bit. However my hunch is that it is also a case of "business as usual on the net". Information still wants to be free - and those who valiently tried to do the unnatural thing - will need to reassess.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2001

EVHEAD!: Essay And Then There Was One
Wednesday, January 31, 2001

"It's probably become obvious to the careful observer that all is not well in the Land of Pyra. Rather than wait for the public speculation and debate, I'm going to say what exactly is going on (from my perspective -- not speaking for anyone else on the team or as an official Pyra/Blogger representative). I'm sure the public speculation and debate will happen anyway, but I don't plan to take much part in it. I have other things to do."

This is how it is at Blogger! Damn.
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Monday, April 23, 2001

The OMNI Unexpurgated Interviews

Still looking for the 100th Monkey article - but here is some great reading!
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Sunday, April 22, 2001

ArtsOnline.com
ArtsOnline is recording and streaming the speeches and panel discussions at CODE. The streams can be accessed using RealPlayer and LINUX-based browsers.

CODE

Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy.
An international conference at Queens' College, Cambridge,
5 and 6 April, 2001.

For full programme information, click here

ArtsOnline is webcasting this important conference about intellectual property and the future of knowledge.

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Scope

Religious Encounters in Digital Networks

Conference on Religion and
Computer-Mediated Communication

"Background
The emergence of the Internet has provided a new context for interaction between religious groupings and individuals in modern society. Religious encounters can now take place in digital settings that apparently transcend a number of conventional boundaries such as organisational structures, time zones, geographic borders, religious traditions, cultural divisions, and ethnical identities."

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