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Transparency & Truthtelling

The Meaning of Mad Max and Deconstruction, Transparency, & Salvage

The Real Self in a Virtual World

A Note on the Title

Culture, Society, Self & Nature

Contemporary Storytelling: Tales of Life Way After the Fall

Mostly longer essays

Star Trek and the New Myth of the Machine
Holocaust as Metaphor
A Table of Elements
Describing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Science Fiction

Type 1:  False Utopias of Technology and Simulation

Logan's Run in Words & Images
Brief Takes:
The Machine Stops;
The City and the Stars;
Demolition Man
Simulation as a Symbol
of Regression and Dreams

Type 2: The Future as a Time of Post-Technological Barbarism

Salvaging the Future: Mad Max  Beyond Thunderdome

Waterworld and The Time Machine:

Type 3: The Future as a Time of Advanced Technological Barbarism

Introduction

Faking It: 1992 Boston Globe
Simulation and the Creation of a Human World
Story-Based Simulations

1. The Origins of Simulation
        in Nature and History

Nature, Representation and Misrepresentation
Virtual Realities: Then and Now

Theorists of Simulation:
  Daniel Boorstin
  Umberto Eco

2. Inventing Postmodernity

Artificial  Rain Forests: Worlds in a Bottle
Disney's Distorted Mirror: Animal Kingdom 1998
Cities of Simulation: Las Vegas
Cities of Simulation: Disney World
Advertising and the Invention of Postmodernity
Narcissus and Necessity: Why Are We
 Creating Virtual Realities?

3. Simulation Confusion

Culture of Deception

.Bringing Fantasy to Life

A Culture Based on Fantasy and Acting Out
The Mastery of Life
The Emergence of Recreational Evil
Mr. Paybak: Revenge as Entertainment

 5. The Widening Horizon of Action and Perception

The Automated Environment
The Deconstruction of Reality:
1. Modernism: Surface and Depth
2. Sherry Turkle: Surface and More Surface
Faustian Society

Addendum: Another Introduction

Stanislaw Lem and the Future of Illusion