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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations | ix
Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition | xiii
Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller | 15
Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller | 37
Preface | 41
Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment | 45
Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era | 50
The Intermedia Network as Nature | 54
Popular Culture and the Noosphere | 57
Art, Entertainment, Entropy | 59
Retrospective Man and the Human Condition | 66
The Artist as Design Scientist | 70
Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama | 75
Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software | 78
Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites | 81
Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage | 84
Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness | 92
Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience | 97
Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction | 106
Synaesthetics and Synergy | 109
Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism | 112
Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality | 122
Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age | 128
Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness | 135
2001: The New Nostalgia | 139
The Stargate Corridor | 151
The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson | 157
Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films | 179
The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis | 180
The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild | 183
Hardware and Software | 185
The Aesthetic Machine | 189
Cybernetic Cinema | 194
Computer Films | 207
Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium | 257
The Videosphere | 260
Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics | 265
Synaesthetic Videotapes | 281
Videographic Cinema | 317
Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments | 337
Part Six: Intermedia | 345
The Artist as Ecologist | 346
World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality | 352
Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium | 359
Intermedia Theatre | 365
Multiple-Projection Environments | 387
Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World | 399
Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography | 400
Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion | 404
Limitations of Holographic Cinema | 407
Projecting Holographic Movies | 411
The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies | 414
Technoanarchy: The Open Empire | 415
Selected Bibliography | 421
Index | 427

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823287413, 978-0823287413
      ISBN10: 0823287416
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations | ix
      Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition | xiii
      Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller | 15
      Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller | 37
      Preface | 41
      Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment | 45
      Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era | 50
      The Intermedia Network as Nature | 54
      Popular Culture and the Noosphere | 57
      Art, Entertainment, Entropy | 59
      Retrospective Man and the Human Condition | 66
      The Artist as Design Scientist | 70
      Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama | 75
      Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software | 78
      Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites | 81
      Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage | 84
      Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness | 92
      Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience | 97
      Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction | 106
      Synaesthetics and Synergy | 109
      Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism | 112
      Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality | 122
      Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age | 128
      Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness | 135
      2001: The New Nostalgia | 139
      The Stargate Corridor | 151
      The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson | 157
      Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films | 179
      The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis | 180
      The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild | 183
      Hardware and Software | 185
      The Aesthetic Machine | 189
      Cybernetic Cinema | 194
      Computer Films | 207
      Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium | 257
      The Videosphere | 260
      Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics | 265
      Synaesthetic Videotapes | 281
      Videographic Cinema | 317
      Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments | 337
      Part Six: Intermedia | 345
      The Artist as Ecologist | 346
      World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality | 352
      Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium | 359
      Intermedia Theatre | 365
      Multiple-Projection Environments | 387
      Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World | 399
      Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography | 400
      Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion | 404
      Limitations of Holographic Cinema | 407
      Projecting Holographic Movies | 411
      The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies | 414
      Technoanarchy: The Open Empire | 415
      Selected Bibliography | 421
      Index | 427

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