links for 2006-01-15
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Mr Barlow, "No, there is no cyberspace."
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Library Journal "talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder John Perry Barlow."
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"This book explores the effects that computer technologies have had, are having, and might have on people -- on our human identity, on our values, on our social status and social relations, and on our desire to make and share knowledge."
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"Perhaps the greatest benefit of the Internet to humanity is not that it is a manifestation of a new human community that will supplant previous ones, but that it re-awakens in us the value of compassion, understanding, self-acceptance...and even the very
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(1) What is the nature of this social structure (cyberspace); and (2) What are the (in this essay, positive) consequences of this social structure?
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David Bennahum's critique of Barlow's widely-read "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace."
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Barlow's response to "Myth of Digital Nirvana:" "Cyberspace is no more separate from the realities of the physical world than the mind is sublimely unrelated to the body."
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"This paper will show not only that virtual communities can exist, but that they do exist and are prospering in cyberspace."
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"Cybersociology Magazine is a forum for the discussion of the social scientific study of cyberspace." Ran from 1997 to 1999.
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A conversation.
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"How has "cyberspace", a word used for a place that is entirely created by technology, become so real that we can see it being discussed as a physical space?"
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John Perry Barlow replies to critics of "Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace."
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"Cyberspace is not a place. It is a dialog of cultures."
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"[T]he intelligent machine gathers its menacing powers from hidden places within you and me... as we gaze into our screens and tap on our keyboards while less than fully conscious of the subtle influences passing through the interface."
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"This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet."
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"People working in the anthropology of space and cultural geography have "fertile territory" to survey in cyberspace. Unlike so many other landscapes, this is one which is being built right before their eyes."
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"Barlow’s “Declaration” contains a dormant intellectual malignancy that could grease the path to universal tyranny. That malignancy lies in expressions of political universalism, a recurring utopian urge that has only produced misery."
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" 'Netbook, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet'... presents the history and impact of various aspects of the Net: the Internet, ARPANET, Usenet, etc."
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"The author then examines the Cartesian spaces of virtual reality, cyberspace as immersive 3-D environments, and reinterprets it in the light of Heidegger's ontology--the difference between being "in" a world in a metaphorical sense, versus Heidegger's un
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Works on intersection of augmented reality, virtual environments, and architecture.
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