Dissertation
Still from Homer³, an animated short within The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror VI" episode, in which Homer is transported to a 3-Dimensional Virtual Space.
My dissertation, starting in the Renaissance, asks how technologies designed to generate feelings of “immersion,” or “being in virtual space” have been used, past and present, as both signifiers of unlimited affordance and technologies of control. I filed in August of 2019.
THE REST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS: MAKING SPACE IN THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REALITY
Introduction: Shades of the Virtual
Chapter 1: A Prehistory of Virtual Space
Chapter 2: The Cartographer’s Dilemma: Mapping the Virtual
Chapter 3: The Virtual Seams in Online Postmodern Geographies
Chapter 4: Kinetosis: The Body, the Virtual, and the Unsettling Effects of Virtual Spaces
Conclusion: Beckons the Void