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Enterface: A NovellaMcLeod, Hubert Calip 01 January 1999 (has links) (PDF)
A computer screen places each of us in an interface and virtual reality provides a totally simulated environment, a virtual world that we can enter. Enterface is a novella that examines the question first posed by Michael Heim: How far can we enter cyberspace and still remain human? It also explores the power and the limitation of language and the role of stories to shape reality in human life. Its themes are death, technology, ethics, and love. It is informed by Wittgensteinian philosophy, Norse mythology, and the "metaphysics of virtual reality."
The plot involves Moses Mackinow, a former Air Force officer and entrepreneur, who decides there should be a way to simply live forever. He hits upon the idea that life could be digitized, and a civilization, a world of complete, sentient humans could be created in cyberspace-a world he could enter upon his death and continue to live. A variety of technologies are available to digitize the physical human (x-rays, CTSCNS, Magnetic Resonance Images, graphic images, etc.), but the big problem is how to synthesize his human heart. Moses decides that the stories of his life are the keys to creating the "rag and bone shop" of his eternal heart. Getting the stories "right" is critical to the prospect of digitizing life and is a major focus of the novella action.
The novella traces the reduction of Moses as a human being as he pursues his obsession, compromising one principle after another. Everything in the environment of the novella, reflects this reduction. Everything becomes less than it was, a glimpse of humanity reduced to bits and bytes, floating 1's and 0's. Enterface is a work at war with itself.
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Path to chaos : excess, absence and anarchy in Tennyson's Idylls of the KingHowerton, Peggie A. 01 January 1993 (has links) (PDF)
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A small life on a grand scale and other storiesRhoden, W. Scott 01 January 1995 (has links)
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Pastoral, the liminal figure, and T.S. Eliot's major poemsCrovitz, Darren Richard 01 January 1997 (has links)
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A place when the sun goes downBaker, Judyth Vary 01 January 1996 (has links)
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Melville's Pierre : an anatomy of a "far-driven soul"Maynor, James Lester 01 January 1995 (has links)
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The transformation of technical writing in the classroom to technical writing in the workplaceSeymour, Suzanne 01 January 1997 (has links)
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NightmaresCarraway, Robert B. 01 January 1999 (has links)
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Living with the deadBernstein, Alan I. 01 January 1998 (has links)
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A little band of brothers against the whole world : nineteenth-century manliness and the male homosocial bond in Tom Brown's Schoolday's, Huck Finn, and Little MenMarks, Christy Alison 01 January 1997 (has links)
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