Gotham City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. The Frame Context 21
6. Chapter 1. The Beginnings
7. The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene 47
8. Thomas Jefferson’s University 63
9. The Building of a Symbolic Image 91
10. Chapter 2. The Unfoldings
11. The World as Grid 121
12. Gotham City 141
13. Good Night, Zoo 159
14. Chapter 3. Virtualization Gains Momentum
15. A Paradise of Decorated Sheds 179
16. The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat 193
17. The Community Question 217
18. Real Virtuality 231
19. The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space 243
20. The Destruction of Space by Augmentation 273
21. Chapter 4. Facets of Acceleration in Hybrid Spaces
22. Mixed Reality 283
23. Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction 311
24. Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds 337
25. Identity in Virtual Worlds 369
26. Beyond the Visible Autonomy 383
27. Chapter 5. Beyond Acceleration
28. “Unheimlich”: The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts 405
29. Against the Self-Evident 419
30. Explorable Spaces 443
31. List of Contributors 453