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Mass communication is a phrase that’s been re-defined over the centuries, as tools to transfer what people think, what they want and how they feel have developed with human progress. Cave paintings, language, stone indentations, the written word, the printing press, the gramophone, the telephone, cinema, radio, television, computers – and now the Internet.

We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And in this book—at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy—he tells us how to understand and live with it.

I’m going to tell you a little bit about the influences on Here & There, a project about representation of urban places, from when it began. It was warmly received when I first presented some corners of it back at Design Engaged in 2004, before Schulze & Webb existed. Here & There is a projection drawing from maps, comics, television, and games.

This particular version is a horizonless projection in Manhattan. The project page is here, where large prints of the uptown and downtown views can be seen and are available to buy.

Foreword (144K)

Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment (156K)

Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama (688K)

Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness (355K)

Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films (883K)

Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium (764K)

Part Six: Intermedia (666K)

Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World (212K)

Bibliography (68K)

Index (44K)

Color Plates (866K)

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The Whole Book (4.6M)

Reuters TV

A television camera captured the instant a bomb exploded at a Muslim festival in Akuressa, Sri Lanka, on March 10, killing 15.

We live in the Global Location Age. “Where am I?” is being replaced by, “Where am I in relation to everything else?”

Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public service media and outreach initiative on the brave new world of digital mapping.

The project will include a 60-minute public television broadcast program, a structured outreach initiative

with educational partners, a chaptered program DVD including educational toolkit components, and a Web site with information and additional resources.