IMG Readings	
								July 1996

Some seminar sources from 1995 & 1996

[Alexander] 
       Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King,
       Shlomo Angel, A Pattern Language Oxford 1977. (vol. 2 of 3, cf. The timeless way of
       building and The Oregon experiment) 
[Baudrillard] 
       Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations, Margins. 
[BrooksBoal] 
       James Brooks and Iain Boal (eds.), Resisting the Virtual Life: the Culture and Politics
       of Information, City Lights 1995. 
[Cook] 
       Nicholas Cook, A Guide to Musical Analysis (Selections from chapters 1,2,6) 
[Coyne] 
       Richard Coyne, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, From
       Method to Metaphor, MIT Press 1995. 
       (Selections: Chapter 5 - Representation and Reality: The Phenomenology of Virtual
       Reality , and Chapter 7, Metaphors and Machines: Metaphor Being, and Systems
       Design. 
[Davis] 
       Mike Davis, City of Quartz -- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Vintage Books
       1992. 
[Derrida] 
       Jacques Derrida, Signature, Event, Context, Margins. 
[Hare] 
       Tom Hare. On Reading Egyptian, supplementary to The Language of the Gods, Stanford
       Comparative Literature and Asian Languages, preprint 1995. (An illuminating and deeply
       researched study of the semiotic, historical, and cosmological aspects of Egyptian hieroglyphic
       writing.) 
[IF] 
       CMU Interactive Fiction
[Jay] 
       Martin Jay. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French
       Thought. 
[Jaenich] 
       Klaus Jaenich, Topology,trans. Silvio Levy, Springer-Verlag 1983 ( selected
       chapters.) 
[Lakoff] 
       George Lakoff.Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the
       Mind. Chicago 1987. See excerpts.
[Laurel] 
       Brenda Laurel, Computers As Theater, Addison-Wesley 1993. (See excerpt.) 
[Luhmann] 
       Niklas Luhmann, The Improbability of Communication, Essays on Self-Reference. 
[MovingWorlds] 
       Moving Worlds, The Moving Worlds Proposal for VRML 2.0. 
[OZ] 
       Oz Project, Joseph Bates, Carnegie Mellon University,
       www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/papers.html 
[Sacks] 
       Sheldon Sacks, ed.,On Metaphor. An anthology with articles by Donald Davidson,
       Paul de Man, Paul Ricoeur, Quine, Max Black,etc. 
[Saussure] 
       Ferdinand de Saussure, Course In General Linguistics tr Wade Baskin, 1983. 
[Sorkin] 
       Michael Sorkin, ed. Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End
       of Public Space. NY: Hill & Wang, 1992. ("Carol Strohecker" ) 
[VRML] 
       Gavin Bell,Anthony Parisi,Mark Pesce. The Virtual Reality Modeling Language 1.0
       Specification. (See also the VRML Frequently Asked Questions.) 
[VRML2] 
       Moving Worlds, the VRML 2.0 specification, 1995. 
[Wilson] 
       Anthony and Patricia Wilson. Theme Parks, Leisure Centres, Zoos, and Aquaria Essex
       UK: Longman Scientific and Technical, copublished with John Wiley & Sons, NY,
       1994. ("issues of place-making, spatial metaphors, and virtual environments," "Carol
       Strohecker" ) 

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