Testing the space of the virtual

Convergence

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 61-77

  Lonsway, Brian ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 30744461970     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485650200800306     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. From the online Mirriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, virtual is defined as 'being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted' (Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 2000. < http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/ dictionary > 15 April, 2000) The online Cambridge Dictionary of American English defines it to be 'almost, but not exactly or in every way' (Cambridge Dictionary of American English 2000. 15 April 2000) And finally, a 1985 American Heritage defines it to be 'existing or resulting in essence or effect, though not in actual fact, form, or name' (American Heritage Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000).
2. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans., Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1974).
3. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
4. Manuel Castells, The Informational City: information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
5. Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory (London: Verso, 1989).
6. Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986).
7. Mary McLeod, 'Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life: An Introduction,' in Architecture of the Everyday, eds. Steven Harris and Deborah Berke (New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1987).
8. Elizabeth Wilson, The Spinx in The City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991).
9. Arjun Appadurai, in Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1996), articulates a theory of cultural differences and interactions through a notion of scapes (eg financescape, mediascape). For Appadurai, this framework helps spatialise these phenomena without grounding them in a particular instance of space (national boundaries, neighbourhoods, etc.).
10. Margaret Morse Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 4.
11. Avital Ronell's The Telephone Book (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989),
12. The concept of presence is fundamental to current discussions of virtual environment design. Among the important contributions are the following: David Zeltzer,' Autonomy, Interaction, and Presence' Presence, 1 no. 1 (1992), pp 127-132;
13. Woodrow Barfield, David Zeltzer, T. Sheridan, and Mel Slater, 'Presence and Performance Within Virtual Environments' in Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design, eds. Woodrow Barfield and Thomas A. Furness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995);
14. David Schloerb. 'A Quantitative Measure of Telepresence', Presence, 4, no.1 (1995), pp. 64-80;
15. Rudolph P. Darken, Terry Allard, and Lisa B. Achille, 'Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: An Introduction', Presence, 7 no. 2 (1998), pp. 101-107.
16. Brian Massumi, 'Line Parable for the Virtual (On the Superiority of the Analog)' in The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, ed. John Beckman (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), p. 313.