Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition xiii
5. Introduction by R. Buckminster fuller 15
6. Inexorable evolution and human ecology 37
7. Preface 41
8. Part one: The audience and the myth of entertainment
9. Radical evolution and future shock in the paleocybernetic age 50
10. The lntermedia network as nature 54
11. Popular culture and the noosphere 57
12. Art, entertainment, entropy 59
13. Retrospective man and the human condition 66
14. The artist as design scientist 70
15. Part two: Synaesthetic cinema: the end of drama
16. Global closed circuit: the earth as software 78
17. Synaesthetic synthesis: simultaneous perception of harmonic opposites 81
18. Syncretism and metamorphosis: montage as collage 84
19. Evocation and exposition: toward oceanic consciousness 92
20. Synaesthetics and kinaesthetics: the way of all experience 97
21. Mythopoeia: the end of fiction 106
22. Synaesthetics and synergy 109
23. Synaesthetic cinema and polymorphous eroticism 112
24. Synaesthetic cinema and extra-objective reality 122
25. Image-exchange and the post-mass audience age 128
26. Part three: Toward cosmic consciousness
27. 2001: the new nostalgia 139
28. The stargate corridor 151
29. The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson 157
30. Part four: Cybernetic cinema and computer films
31. The technosphere: man/machine symbiosis 180
32. The human bio-computer and his electronic brainchild 183
33. Hardware and software 185
34. The aesthetic machine 189
35. Cybernetic cinema 194
36. Computer films 207
37. Part five: Television as a creative medium
38. The videosphere 260
39. Cathode-ray tube videotronics 265
40. Synaesthetic videotapes 281
41. Videographic cinema 317
42. Closed-circuit television and teledynamic environments 337
43. Part six: Intermedia
44. The artist as ecologist 346
45. World expositions and nonordinary reality 352
46. Cerebrum: lntermedia and the human sensorium 359
47. Intermedia theatre 365
48. Multiple-projection environments 387
49. Part seven: Holographic cinema: a new world
50. Wave-front reconstruction: Lensless photography 400
51. Dr. Alex Jacobson: holography in motion 404
52. Limitations of holographic cinema 407
53. Projecting holographic movies 411
54. The kinoform: computer-generated holographic movies 414
55. Technoanarchy: the open empire 415
56. Selected bibliography 421
57. Index 427