Background Reading

Here is some of the background reading I've been doing.  I'll be adding more from my notes, and further suggestions are very welcome.

• Abram, D. (1997) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human-World New York: Vintage.
• Agre, P. and Horswill, I. (1997) ‘Lifeworld Analysis’, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research Volume 6 http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/agre97a.html
• Armour, J.P. (1994) Birth of a Metaphor http://www.netmom.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=3&bid=52&btitle=About%20Net-mom&meid=30
• Bachelard, G. (1964, 1994) The Poetics Of Space, Boston: Beacon Press , Boston.   
• Barabasi, A-L. (2002) Linked : The New Science of Networks, Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus      
• Barbrook, R. & Cameron, A. (1997) ‘Californian Ideology’ Chaos http://www.arpnet.it/chaos/barbrook.htm
• Barlow, J.P. (1996) ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’, February 8, http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
• Bateson, G. (2000) Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Bear, J. (1983) Computer Wimp : 166 Things I Wish I Had Known before I Bought My First Computer. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press
• Benjamin, W. (  ) Illuminations, London: Pimlico Press
• Besher, A., Engebretson, P. and Bollerot, F. (1995) ‘Virtual Tao, A Cyber-Meditation’ Shambhala Sun  Magazine, http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/1995/July95/VirtualTao.htm
• Bishop, P. (1989) The Myth of Shangri-La : Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape. London: Athlone Press
• Blythe, R. (1969) Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, London: Allen Lane 
• Bolter, J. D. & Grusin, R. A. (1999) Remediation : Understanding New Media, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
• Bricklin, D. 2001,‘The Cornucopia of the Commons’, http://www.bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
• Broadhurst, Ronald J. C. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr ... Translated ... By R. J. C. Broadhurst. With an Introduction and Notes. [with Maps.]. pp. 430. Jonathan Cape: London, 1952.
• Carton, Sean. Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour : Muds, Moos & Mushes : Interactive Games, Conferences & Forums. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Ventana Press, 1995
• Classen, C. 1993, Worlds of Sense, Routledge, London
• Colquhoun, Kate. A Thing in Disguise : The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton. London: Fourth Estate, 2003.
• Cornucopia of Cooperation and Social Spillover, Ross Mayfield, http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/22/cornucopia_of_cooperation_and_social_spillover.php
• Coverley, M. (2006) Psychogeography London: Pocket Essentials
• Cross, R. February, 1995, ‘Modem Grrrl’ Wired 119, San Francisco.   
• Curtis, P. 1998, ‘Not Just a Game: How LambdaMOO came to exist and what it did to get back at me’, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, Eds. Haynes,C. and Holmevik, J.R., University of Michigan Press, Michigan, p.27.                                          
• Damasio, A. R. The Feeling of What Happens : Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. London: Vintage, 2000.                                                                                             
  
• Davis, E. (1998, 1999). Techgnosis : Myth, Magic + Mysticism in the Age of Information. London: Serpent’s Tail
• Davis, E. 1994, ‘It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World: Exploring Online Reality’, The Village Voice, 22 February, http://www.techgnosis.com/muds.html.                                                                  
• de Kerckhove, D. ‘Network Art and Virtual Communities’, Parallel, Australia, 6 November 1995, http://www.va.com.au/parallel/x2/journal/derrick_dk/ddk.html  Accessed 6 October 2003
• Deakin, R. (2000) Waterlog London: Vintage
• Debord,G. (1992) Society of the Spectacle Trans, Ken Knabb, London: Rebel Press
• De Certeau, M. (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life Trans. Steven Rendall, Los Angeles: University of California Press
• Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press, 1988.                                                                                                 
• Dery, Mark. Escape Velocity : Cyberculture at the End of the Century. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996
• Dibbell, J. ‘A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society’, The Village Voice, December 23, 1993.          
• Dibbell, Julian. My Tiny Life : Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. London: Fourth Estate, 1999. 
• Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Picador. London: Pan Books, 1980.   Distributed by Tollman Co., 1988.                                                               
• Dodge, Martin, and Rob Kitchin. Mapping Cyberspace. London ; New York: Routledge, 2001.       
• Donnelly, Ignatius. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World ... Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882.
• Edwards, B. (1999) The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Tarcher
• Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves : Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman. London: Rider, 1992.                                                                                    
• Figallo, Cliff. Hosting Web Communities : Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining a Competitive Edge. New York ; Chichester: Wiley, 1998.
• Finn, Christine. Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2001.                                                                                                             
• Flanagan, M. and Booth, A. Eds. 2002, Reload: rethinking women and cyberculture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge.                                                             
• Frude, Neil. The Intimate Machine : Close Encounters with the New Computers. London: Century Publishing, 1983.                                                                                                             
• Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition. London: Viking, 2003.                
• Gibson,W.(1984) Neuromancer, London: Gollancz
• Goodridge, John, and John Clare Society (Peterborough England). Conference. The Independent Spirit : John Clare and the Self-Taught Tradition. Helpston [England]: John Clare Society and the Margaret Grainger Memorial Trust, 1994.                                                                                 
• Grand, S. 2003, Growing up with Lucy, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London.      
• Gustaitis, Rasa. Turning on, Etc. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.         
• Hansen, S. 2002, ‘The Emotional Machine’, Salon, http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/01/02/grand/index3.html, Accessed 10 October 2004
• Haraway, D. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), 149-181. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
• Harcourt, Wendy. Women@Internet : Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London ; New York: Zed Books, 1999.                                                                                                             
• Hardin, G. ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. http://dieoff.com/page95.htm 
• Harper, M.C., 1995, ‘Incurably Alien Other: A Case for Feminist Cyborg’, Science Fiction Studies Volume 22, p.417                                                                                                      
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Milton R. Stern. The House of the Seven Gables. Penguin Classics: New York ; London : Penguin Books, 1986 [2005 printing].                                        
• Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1999.                  
• Hayles. Writing Machines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.          
• Haynes, C. and Holmevik, J.R , 1998, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, Michigan.                                                   
• Henwood, Felicity, Helen Kennedy, and Nod Miller. Cyborg Lives? : Women's Technobiographies. York: Raw Nerve, 2001.                                                                                                   
• Herz, J. C. Surfing on the Internet : A Nethead's Adventure on-Line. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.    
• Hinchliffe, D. Web 2.0 Blog, http://web2.wsj2.com/web2cyberspace.htm 16 October, 2005
• Hine, Christine. Virtual Ethnography. London: SAGE, 2000.
• Ibn Jubayr, Mu E. ammad ibn A. E. mad, and Ronald J. C. Broadhurst. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Being the Chronicles of a Mediaeval Spanish Moor Concerning His Journey to the Egpyt of Saladin : The Holy Cities of Arabia, Baghdad the City of the Caliphs, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. London: J. Cape, 1952
• image from Museum, Apple II History http://apple2history.org/museum/computers_apple1/apple1b.html
• Jarrett, Dennis. Good Computing Book for Beginners. London: ECC Publications, 1980.    
• John Lanchester, ‘Engine Trouble’, The Guardian, 26.1.06
• Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. 1st ed. [San Francisco]: HarperEdge, 1997.                  
• Keats, J. ‘On first looking into Chapman's Homer’
• Kehoe, Brendan P. (1992) Zen and the Art of the Internet A Beginner's Guide to the Internet http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html (accessed October 2006)
• Keith, Arthur Sir. The Engines of the Human Body ... Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc. pp. xvi. 343. pl. II. Williams & Norgate: London, 1925.                                          
• Kosko, Bart. Fuzzy Thinking : The New Science of Fuzzy Logic. London: Flamingo, 1994, 1993.    
• Kroker, A. & Weinstein, M.(1994) Data Trash: The Theory Of The Virtual Class, Montreal: New World Perspectives
• Kroker, Arthur, and Marilouise Kroker. Hacking the Future : Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s. Culturetexts. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.                                                            
• Krueger, M.P. (1983) Artificial Reality, Reading: Addison-Wesley
• Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1980) Metaphors We Live By, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• LambdaMOO, telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888.                                                      
• Lanchester, J. ‘Engine Trouble’, The Guardian, 26.1.06
• Lao, Tzu, and D. C. Lau. Tao Te Ching. Penguin, 1963(1985).               
• Larissa Conrad and Timothy J. Roper  'Consensus decision making in animals' Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 20, Issue 8 , August 2005, Pages 449-456 (via http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/08/12/wisdom_of_anim.html 
• Leder, D. 1990, The Absent Body, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.    
• LinguaMOO, http://lingua.utdallas.edu.                                                                   
• Liu, Alan. The Laws of Cool : Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 2004.                                                                                 
• Mabey, R. (2006) Nature Cure London: Pimlico
• MacKenzie, Donald A., and Judy Wajcman. The Social Shaping of Technology. 2nd ed. ed. Milton Keynes, [Eng.] ; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open University Press, 1999.                         
• Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Leonardo. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2001
• Maps of the Imagination : The Writer as Cartographer. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2004
• Marquez, G.G. (1967, 1998) One Hundred Years of Solitude  London: Penguin
• Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. pp. 392. Oxford University Press: New York, 1964.                                                             
• Matsuo, Basho, and Nobuyuki Yuasa. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches; Translated ... With an Introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa. (Penguin Classics.): Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966                     
• Mavromatis, A. 1987, Hypnagogia: The Unique State Of Consciousness Between Wakefulness And Sleep, Routledge, London.                                                                         
• McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964.                                                                                                                        
• Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945) Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith 1958, London: Routledge.
• Michie, Donald, and Rory Johnston. The Creative Computer : Machine Intelligence and Human Knowledge. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985, 1984.                                                      
• Minsky, M. 1987, The Society Of Mind, Heinemann, London.                
• Mitchell, W. () ME++, MIT Press
• O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 2005, http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2005/view/e_sess/6329 
• O’Reilly, T. What is Web 2.0, O’Reilly, 30/9/2005, http://www.oreilly.net.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-2.0.html
• Ong, W. 1982, Orality and Literacy, Routledge, London.                        
• Pang, A. 'End of Cyberspace' http://www.endofcyberspace.com
• Phenomenology Online, glossary http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/glossary/glossary.html  
• Pink, D.  (2005) A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, New York: Riverhead Books
• Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. London: Heinemann, 1986.                                                                              
• Ratzan, Lee (2000)   "Making sense of the Web: a metaphorical approach". Information Research, 6(1) Available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/6-1/paper85.html accessed 14/8/05
• Reggio, G, (1983) Koyaanisqatsi
• Rheingold, Howard. Tools for Thought : The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2000, 1985.                                                   
• Rheingold. Smart Mobs : The Next Social Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2002.   
• Rickard, Jolene, ‘First Nation Territory in Cyber Space Declared : No Treaties Needed’, CyberPowWow (no date) http://www.cyberpowwow.net/nation2nation/jolenework.html (accessed November 2005)
• Romanyshyn, R.D. (1989) Technology As Symptom And Dream, London: Routledge
• Roney-Dougal, Serena. Where Science and Magic Meet. London: Robson, 2002.   
• Rushkoff, D. Renaissance Prospects, a talk at Poptech 2004. http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail243.html
• Sensory Integration and Intuition’, Selfhelp Magazine http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/internet/showsens.html
• Shneiderman, Ben. Leonardo's Laptop : Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2002.                                                               
• Sikora, T. (2000) Wild as a hawk’s dream: towards an ecology of cyberspace  http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~coventrm/asa2000/panel3/sikora.html 
• Slouka, Mark. War of the Worlds : Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality. New York: BasicBooks, 1995.                                                                                                             
• Snyder, G. (1990) The Practice of the Wild, San Francisco: North Point Press
• Solnit, R. (2003) River of Shadows: Edweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West , New York: Viking
• Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust : A History of Walking. London: Verso, 2001.    
• Sondheim, A. Internet Text ii of ii (no date given) http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/ 
• Sondheim, A.J. (1999) Jennifer in Phaedra, Ellsworth, ME: Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, No.43
• Sondheim, Alan. Disorders of the Real. Barrytown, N.Y.                         
• Springer, Claudia. Electronic Eros : Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age. London: Athlone, 1996
• Stefik, Mark J. Internet Dreams : Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 1996.                                                                                                             
• Stone, A.R. 1995, The War of Desire And Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, MIT Press, Cambridge.                                                                                                   
• Stryker, S. ‘Sex and Death among the Cyborgs’, Wired 4.05, May 1996,  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/stone.html?topic=&topic_set=       
• Sudo, Philip Toshio. Zen Computer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.       
• Suler, J. ‘The Psychology of Cyberspace’, http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html 
• Thomas, S. (1994) ‘All Strapped In’, Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women, ed. Thomas, S. Overlook Press, New York; Vintage, London, pp.87-91
• Thomas, S. (1990) ‘Between the Boys and their Toys’, Where No Man Has Gone Before, ed. Armitt, L., Routledge, London, pp.109-122. 
• Thomas, S. (1992) Correspondence The Women's Press, London; 1993, Overlook Press, New York. 
• Thomas, S. (2000) Correspondence web view http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/correspondence/
• Thomas, S. (2004) Hello World: Travels in Virtuality York: Raw Nerve Books
• Thomas, S. et al, (2007) Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) De Montfort University http://www.transliteracy.com
• Thomas, S. (1997) ‘Revolver’ Freebase Journal of Culture and Technology, Ed. Simon Mills, http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame/freebase/suet/r1.html.
• Thomas, S. (2003) ‘Spivak’,  Barcelona Review 35, ed. Adams, J. March-April 2003 http://www.barcelonareview.com/35/e_st.htm 
• Thomas, S. (1994) Water Overlook Press, New York; 1995, Five Leaves Press, Nottingham.
• Thoreau, H.D. ( ) Walden, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Tillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall. The Elizabethan World Picture. (Pelican Books.): Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.                                                                                             
• Toffler, A. (1971) Future Shock. London: Pan Books                           
• Tofts, Darren, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro. Prefiguring Cyberculture : An Intellectual History. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2003.                                        
• Torkington, N. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/supernova_2005_2.html
• Turkle, S. (1984) The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit. London: Granada         
• Turkle, S. (1996) Life on the Screen : Identity in the Age of the Internet. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Vanderwal.net  http://www.vanderwal.net/random/category.php?cat=132 
• Weizenbaum, J. 1966,  ‘ELIZA – A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine,’ Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 9, pp.36-45. http://i5.nyu.edu/~mm64/x52.9265/january1966.html Accessed 20 October 2004.                        
• Weizenbaum, J. 1976, Computer Power and Human Reason: from judgment to computation, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco.                                                                           
• Wertheim, M. (1999) The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace : A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. London: Virago
• Weyhrich, S 2001 The Apple-1, Apple History http://apple2history.org/history/ah02.html
• Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/                                                          
• Wolmark, Jenny. Cybersexualities : A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs, and Cyberspace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.                                                             
• Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1970
  

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