Some proposed readings for img

See the un-annotated list for more references.

(NOTE: Many links may be obsolete.. - sxw 4.1.2003 )

[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)

[Arijon]

Daniel Arijon, Grammar of the Film Language 1976,(1991 ppk). (Compendium of camera techniques.)

[Barwise]

Barwise and Perry, Situations and Attitudes 1983.

[Baudrillard]

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations, Margins.

[Bent]

Ian Bent. Musical Analysis, (originally a chapter in the Grove Dictionary).

[Birkerts]

Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Faber and Faber 1994. (A pessimistic view of electronic media. .)

[Bringsjord]

Selmer Bringsjord. Why Henrik Ibsen Threatens Computer-generated Literature (Postscript form.)

[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 )

[CoplienSchmidt]

James O. Coplien, Douglas C. Schmidt, Editors. Pattern Languages of Program Design . (Articles about higher-order structures -- patterns -- in programs, particularly object-oriented programs. See also the Patterns and Pattern Languages website.)

[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.

 

[Dalhaus]

Dalhaus. Analysis and Value Judgment, (musical theory, semantics, aesthetics, value).

 

[Davis]

Mike Davis, City of Quartz -- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Vintage Books 1992.

[Derrida]

Jacques Derrida, Signature, Event, Context, Margins.

[Derrida2]

Jacques Derrida, White Mythology: Metaphor in the text of Philosophy, Margins.

[Dunsby]

Dunsby and Whittall. Musical Analysis and Theory.

 

[Goodman]

Bradley Goodman. Reference identification and reference identification failure Computational Linguistics, 12(4): 273-305, 1986..

[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.)

 

[Hesse]

Carla Hesse, Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

[IF]

CMU Interactive Fiction

 

[Jay]

Martin Jay. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought.

[hooks]

bell hooks, African American Live Arts, Z Magazine, April 1995.

[Jaenich]

Klaus Jaenich, Topology,trans. Silvio Levy, Springer-Verlag 1983 ( selected chapters.)

[Kay]

Alan Kay, Evolution essay (an example of active essay containing links to simulations of genetic algorithms acting on English text).

[Kittler]

Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900, Stanford 1993 (German 1985.), Foreword by David Wellbery.

[Kittler2]

Friedrich A. Kittler, On The Take-Off of Operators.

[Kittler3]

Friedrich A. Kittler, There is No Software.

[Kronfeld]

Amichai Kronfeld, "Donnellan's distinction and a computational model of reference, Proc. of 24th ACL, 1986.

[Kronfeld]

Amichai Kronfeld, "Donnellan's distinction and a computational model of reference, Proc. of 24th ACL, 1986.

[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.)

[Leroi-Gourhan]

Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Geste et la parole, 1961, (Gesture and speech tr.English, MIT Press 1993. (Chapters 6-9.).

[Lightman]

Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams, 1993, (Novel, fantasies on alternate times, set in Vienna 1905. selected chapters.).

[Luhmann]

Niklas Luhmann, The Improbability of Communication, Essays on Self-Reference.

 

[Mann]

Steve Mann, Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality (Work at MIT Media Lab on computer-augmented clothing, perception, and memory. )

 

[Marques]

Ivan Costa Marques, Virtual Reality and Radical Exclusion (CEPE'97 - Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry)

 

[Maturana & Varela]

Humberto Maturana and Francisco G. Varela -- The Tree of Knowledge [Green Library QP395.M3813 1992] (Introduction to autopoietic systems, embodied cognition, neuro-biology.)

[Maturana & Varela]

Humberto Maturana and Francisco G. Varela -- Autopoiesis and cognition: the realization of the living [Green Library Q175.B73 v.42] (much cited.)

[McLuhan]

Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, MIT Press 1994. (Some chapters duplicated in Essential McLuhan, p. 149-168). (See excerpt Part I.)

[McLuhan2]

Marshall McLuhan. Essential McLuhan (anthology, ed. Eric McLuhan & Frank Zingrone, Basic Books 1995.).

[MovingWorlds]

Moving Worlds, The Moving Worlds Proposal for VRML 2.0.

[ODonnell]

James J. O'Donnell, The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed.(This is the second in a series of studies addressing contemporary issues of networked information in a historical context....[with an emphasis] on the communities and institutions that organize and use that information.")

[Outram]

Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution.

[OZ]

Oz Project, Joseph Bates, Carnegie Mellon University, www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/papers.html

[Peirce]

C.S. Peirce. Writings on Semiotic, (Anthology. See especially:Questions concerning certain faculties claimed for man; Some consequences of four incapacities; On the nature of signs; The fixation of belief; How to make our ideas clear).
Charles S. Peirce: Writings
Peirce Group Home Page: Peirce... a Conceptual Graphs Workbench

 

[Polple]

Polple. Theory Analysis and Meaning in Music, (essays).

[Putnam]

Hilary Putnam. Reason, Truth and History. Cambridge, 1981. (See especially chapters 2, A problem about reference and 4 Mind and body: Parallelism, interactionism, identity.)

[Putnam2]

Hilary Putnam. Philosophical Papers v. 2 (Mind, Language and Reason), and v. 3 (Realism and Reason). (Linked to Lakoff; certain essays may be relevant to Michelle's readings.)

[Rosen]

Charles Rosen, The Triumph of Beethoven, New York Review of Books , 21 September 1995, pp 52-56.

[Rotman]

Brian Rotman, Going Parallel BESIDE ONESELF, 1996.

[Rotman2]

Brian Rotman, Going Parallel BESIDE ONESELF, 1997 (Stanford).

[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.

[Schweizer]

Helgi-Jón Schweizer, Natural Interactivity, ANPA volume 4, 1997 (ed. Tom Etter). (Delivered at IMG Seminar, Stanford, Dec 4 and 11, 1996.)

[Self]

A prototype-based object programming langauge. See especially papers by Ungar & Randy Smith

 

[Smith] The Use-Mention Perspective on Programming for the Interface (1992)

Randall B. Smith, David Ungar, and Bay-Wei Chang

 

[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" )

[SHR]

Bridging the Gap: Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism; and Constructions of the Mind:Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities, eds. Stefano Franchi and Gven Gzeldere. Stanford Humanities Review.

 

[Ungar] Programming as an Experience: The Inspiration for Self (1995)

Randall B. Smith and David Ungar

 

[Zimmerman]...