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Books : reviews

Ken Goldberg, ed.
The Robot in the Garden: telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the Internet.
MIT Press. 2000

The papers are collected in four Parts: • Philosophy • Art, History, and Critical Theory • Engineering, Interface, and System Design • Postscript

Contents

• Introduction: The Unique Phenomenon of a Distance. 2000
• Thomas J. Campanella. Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape. 2000
• Hubert L. Dreyfus. Telepistemology: Descartes's Last Stand. 2000
• Catherine Wilson. Vicariousness and Authenticity. 2000
• Albert Borgmann. Information, Nearness, and Farness. 2000
• Jeff Malpas. Acting at a Distance and Knowing from Afar: Agency and Knowledge on the Internet. 2000
• Alvin I. Goldman. Telerobotic Knowledge: a Reliabilist Approach. 2000
• Martin Jay. The Speed of Light and the Virtualization of Reality,. 2000
• Lev Manovich. To Lie and to Act: Potemkin's Villages, Cinema, and Telepresence. 2000
• Eduardo Kac. Dialogical Telepresence and Net Ecology. 2000
• Machiko Kusahara. Presence, Absence, and Knowledge in Telerobotic Art. 2000
• Marina Grzinic. Exposure Time, the Aura, and Telerobotics. 2000
• Oliver Grau. The History of Telepresence: Automata, Illusion, and the Rejection of the Body. 2000
• Blake Hannaford. Feeling is Believing: a History of Telerobotics. 2000
• John Canny, Eric Paulos. Tele-Embodiment and Shattered Presence: Reconstructing the Body for Online Interaction. 2000
• Judith Donath. Being Real: Questions of Tele-Identity. 2000
• Michael Idinopulos. Telepistemology, Mediation, and the Design of Transparent Interfaces. 2000
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The Film and the New Psychology (1945). 2000