The GOALS of
this course are
to explore and discuss the social, intellectual,
and aesthetic dimensions of cyberspace
and
to add our own work to that community:
work that manifests
distinction of style and significance of content.
cyberspace: A "consensual hallucination"
(William Gibson)
cyberspace: the real place
that isn't there
cyberspace: "A parallel universe created and sustained with the global
network of computers and communication lines" (Michael Benedikt)
cyberspace: the first wide-scale, democratic, many-to-many medium
Humanities: Literature, the Fine Arts,
Philosophy and History
Major humanities works must:
address themselves to a general
audience;
manifest excellence in style;
express significant ideas
about the human mind and society.
Humanities: the history of ideas
Humanities: the integrative study of society, ideas, and the arts
Humanities: concerned with questions of value - aesthetic, intellectual,
and moral - that are inherent in ideas.
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