Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Site from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Technology & the Production of Meaning

A four-part (at present) essay on technology.

Bodies and Their Spaces

A collection of essays, on-line, concerning the body and "cyberspace".

Shawn Wilbur's Homepage

Grad student writing a dissertation on "virtual communities" Contains on-line essays and links.

Online Scholarship Initiative

Contains an archive of essays.

Virtual Sex--The Final Frontier

Essay dealing with notions of community and computer-mediated vs. personal communication

Bodies and Technologies

Dora, Neuromancer, Strategies of Resistance. On-line essay by Wendy Wahl, published by PMC.

Working Out the Cyberbody

Sex and Gender Constructions in Text-Based Virtual Space On-line essay by Tomasz Mazur

Possessed by Virtual Reality

On-line essay by Morten Søby

Can We Have Communities in (Cyber)Space?

On-line essay by Derek Foster

Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs

On-line essay by markdery@well.sf.ca.us, dealing with social implications of television.

'The Internet Gestalt'

Prolegomenon to a Descriptive Political Economy of the Electronic Subject. On-line essay by Alex Gillis

Venus In Microsoft:

male mas(s)ochism and cybernetics On-line essay by Stephen Pfohl

Computers and theCommunication of Gender

On-line essay by Elizabeth Lane Lawley

Panic Manhattan

On-line essay by Eric Fischl

`Objectifying" the Body in the Discourse of an Object-Oriented MUD

On-line essay by Lynn Cherny

Beyond the Orality/Literacy Dichotomy:

James Joyce and the Pre-History of Cyberspace On-line essay by Donald F. Theall

Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual

Reality (Draft) On-line essay by John Unsworth

Abductive Multiloguing

The Semiotic Dynamics of Navigating the Net On-line essay by Gary Shank arguing that the best model for understanding the language of Networks is semiotics.

Postmodern Theory, Culture Studies and Hypertext

Site containing links on the above.

Modern Culture Zine

A link containing various philosophical musings, and hints concerning the phenomenon of the Web. Worth a look.

Gibson/Sterling Lecture

An impassioned lecture delivered by the sci-fi writers Bruce Sterling and William Gibson on their vision of the educational value of the web/internet. A good (short) read.

jpurcell@frank.mtsu.edu