Mediatheory: A Postmodern Cosmology of Virtual Reality

Version 1.1
©1997 Cyberhobbit

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Launching the Subject

1.1. Writing about Mediatheory: the Mediatext
1.2. The Question of Methodology: Ambulante Wissenschaft
1.3. The History of Paradigms: a Questioning of Reality

2. Mediatheories: Content, Form and Software

2.1. Marshall McLuhan: Mediatheory as Form Analysis
2.2. Cyberspace: from Science Fiction to Social Reality
2.3. Cyberia: the Discovery of the Fourth Dimension
2.4. Virtual Reality: a Postmodern Concept of Reality

2.4.1. Jean Baudrillard: Simulationism as Mediatheory
2.4.2. Paul Virilio: the Dissolution of Time
2.4.3. Conclusion of Chapter 2.4.

2.5. The Physics of Cyberspace: the Possibility of Timetravelling?
2.6. The Biology of Cyberspace: Digital Creatures in a Virtual World
2.7. Cyborg: Being Human in a Mediated Age

2.7.1. No Drugs without Media, No Media without Drugs
2.7.2. Total Freedom: the Concept of Virtual Identity
2.7.3 The Datadandy: Virtual Identity in the Nineties
2.7.4. The Esoteric Essence: a Strive for Immortality

3. Heterotopias: No End, No Conclusion, No Criticism

Extras:

The Cyberhobbit: An alternative fairytale introduction

Excursion: Maarten Dillinger: basics of a fivedimensional worldview

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