Cyberspace has been defined as "an infinite artificial world where humans navigate in information-based space" and as "the ultimate computer-human interface." However one defines it, this "virtual reality" is clearly both the strangest and most radically innovative of today's computer developments. These original contributions take up the philosophical basis for cyberspace in ancient thought, the relevance of the body in virtual realities, basic communications principles for cyberspace, the coming dematerialization of architecture, the logic of graphic representation into the third dimension, the design of a noncentralized system for multiparticipant cyberspaces, the ramifications of cyberspace for future workplaces, and a great deal more.

Cyberspace: First Steps

Computers & Technology

Benedikt, Michael

Computer Science

Mit Pr

E.P. DUTTON &amp; CO., ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS, EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY BENEDIKT AND WELLWARTH, 1966, PAPERBACK.

Modern French Theatre

Wellwarth, George E.

Literature & Fiction

E.P.Dutton

Sky (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Night Cries (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

The thematically related but altogether individual pieces present the author's gleeful, bizarre, hilarious, sometimes sinister visions that force the reader to review life,disquitingly call into question man's conventional wisdoms and pieties, even the everyday perceptions by which he lives.

Mole Notes (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

United States

Mole Notes

Michael Benedikt teaches, practices architecture, and writes in Austin, where he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas. His second book, Deconstructing the Kimbell (0-930829-16-6), is also published by Lumen. "Benedikt has written a bold theoretical essay, with stirring cultural implications, that argues to restore the missing sense of reality to architecture and insists on ‘the direct esthetic experience of the real.’ . . . a timely manifesto. Thought-provoking and eminently quotable, it succeeds admirably in what it sets out to do: to recall architecture, and not only architecture, to those all but mute meanings so often passed over and yet inseparable from our everyday existence.—Karsten Harries "This book will still be useful when this year's round arches have all been remodeled (isn't it inevitable?) into pointed. And because it is so vividly -and thoughtfully--written, it will still be a pleasure to read."—Charles Moore "Every literate architect should take an afternoon off to read and ponder this brief and thoughtful and thoroughly engaging book. . . . Benedikt says more about some central aesthetic and philosophical issues confronting contemporary architecture than many celebrated pundits manage to squeeze into a shelfful of books. . . . He offers a straightforward account of his own struggle to understand the pleasures and responsibilities of architecture in an age when aesthetic pleasure is all but indiscernible from entertainment, and responsibility is often a cover for thoughtless conformity."—Roger Kimball, Architectural Record "Benedikt marches bravely into the philosophical thicket to find a working definition of reality. . . . In his sensibilities, he is quite transcendental, much like a Thoreau or an Emerson in a hotel lobby of potted ficus trees."—Howard Mansfield, Small Press ". . . the book of the decade in Texas architectural circles. . . "—Texas Architect

For an Architecture of Reality

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Lumen Books

A clear-sighted look at the impact of Derrida and the deconstructionists on contemporary architecture. "A terrific piece. It is a pleasure to read, very perceptive, lucid, and well argued."--Kenneth Frampton "A fine appraisal of a great work of art. The advice here is to skip Derrida and get right to Benedikt."--ABR

Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture

Architecture

Lumen

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