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- Virtual Realism, Oxford University Press, 1998, 238
pages, 22 color illustrations, index, bibliography. Japanese
translation published by Sanko-sha, Tokyo, 2003. Korean
translation published by Body and Mind Books, Seoul, August 2002.
(excerpts available online, see
www.mheim.com
- The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, with a foreword by
Myron Krueger, Oxford University Press, 208 pages, 1993. Japanese
translation by Akeo Tabata, published by Iwanami Publishers,
Tokyo, 1995. Chinese translation by Jin Wu-Lun and Liu Gang,
published by Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education
Publishing House, Beijing, 1998. Korean translation published by
Chiak-Se-Sang Book World, Seoul, 1997. (two chapters available
online, see www.mheim.com)
- Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing,
Yale University Press, 1987; Yale paperback, 1989, 310 pages.
Second edition with new Author's Introduction and a Preface by
David Gelernter, Spring 1999. (one chapter available online, see
www.mheim.com)
- Being Human in the Ultimate: Studies in the Thought of John M.
Anderson, edited by Michael Heim and N. Georgopoulos, Rodopi
Press, Amsterdam & Atlanta, 1995.
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic by Martin Heidegger,
(translation), with a translator's introduction, notes, and
lexicon, Indiana University Press, 1984, 256 pages.
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Articles, Papers, Interviews |
“Digital Me,” in DotCopy: Zukunftsmagazin, February 2003,
published by Telekom Austria.
“Artificial Nature,” in DotCopy: Zukunftsmagazin, January
2002, issue 4, pp. 14-17, published by Telekom Austria. (available
online, see link at www.mheim.com)
with Jerry Isdale, Clive Fenicott, and Leonard Daly, "Content Design
for Virtual Environments” in The Handbook of Virtual
Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications, Kay M.
Stanney, ed., (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2002), pp. 519-533.
Interview with Jeremy Turner, “Where Have the Avatars Gone?” in
Shift magazine, May 2002. (available online, see link at
www.mheim.com)
Interview article "Escaping to Other Worlds: The VR Option" in the
Israeli newspaper Maariv, May 5, 2002. (available online, see
link at www.mheim.com)
Interview in the Korean newspaper Chosun Times, March 26,
2002. English version. (available online, see link at www.mheim.com)
“The Feng Shui of Virtual Worlds,” in Computer Graphics World,
Volume 24, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 19-21.
“Transmogrification,” in Ritus – Kult – Virtualitaet, (in
German and English), Christian Wesseley and Gerhard Larcher, eds.,
(Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2000), pp. 39-52. (available
online, see link at www.mheim.com)
"Response to Stephen J. Schneider's Review of Virtual Realism," Jan.
2000, in CyberCulture Resources. (available online, see link
at www.mheim.com)
“Virtual Reality and the Tea Ceremony” in The Virtual Dimension
edited by John Beckmann (New York: Princeton Architectural
Press, 1998), pp. 156-77. (available online, see link at
www.mheim.com)
"Cyberspace," "Multimedia," and "Virtual Reality," three articles,
2,000 words each, in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited
by Michael Kelly, (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Review of Andrew Feenberg's book Alternative Modernity: The
Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory, in The
Information Society (Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis), 14: 1-2,
February, 1998, pp. 203-4.
"Michael Heim's Technojectory," feature article by Mark Nixon
(interview essay), in 21st Century (21*C), January 1998, pp.
58-63.
“Creating the Virtual Middle Ground,” in Technos: Quarterly for
Education & Technology, Fall 1998, Vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 15-20.
"Im Reich des Virtuellen: Der Computer als Schoepfer einer neuen
Realitaet," ("The Virtual Realm"), in Neue Zuercher Zeitung,
January 23, 1998, Nr. 18, p. 65 (2500-word essay).
Interview “On Line with Michael Heim,” in The Journal of
Contemporary Health,” issue 4 / Summer 1996, p. 33.
"The Design of Virtual Reality," in the anthology Theory, Culture
& Society edited by Mike Featherstone and Bryan Turner (Sage
Publications, 1995), also published in the journal Body & Society
1 (3-4), Fall, 1995.
"VR for Real-World Ecology," in Virtual Reality Special Report
(Miller Freeman Publishers), Fall 1995, forthcoming.
Book Review of From Writing to Computers by Julian Warner, in
Journal of the American Society for Information Science (John
Wiley & Sons, publisher), volume 46 (8), September 1995.
"The Design of Virtual Reality," in Press Enter: Between
Seduction and Disbelief (Exhibit Catalog Book published by the
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 1995), pp. 57-86.
“The Art of Virtual Reality,” in Intelligent Environments:
Spatial Aspects of the
Information Revolution, Peter Droege. editor, 1997, (Amsterdam,
North Holland), ISBN 0-444-82332-8.
"The Art of Virtual Reality," an essay on the Banff Centre VR
Projects, in Virtual Reality Special Report (Miller Freeman
Publishers), Winter 1994, pp. 9-22.
"The Dark Side of Virtual Reality," UFO: A Forum on Extraordinary
Theories and Phenomena, Vol. 9, no. 6, 1994, pp. 36-39.
"Alternate World Syndrome (AWS)," in The Bulletin of Anomalous
Experience, Volume 5, number 3, 1994, pp. 14-15.
"Nature and Cyberspace," in Man & Nature, working paper #28,
published by the Danish Humanities Research Center, Odense
University, edited by Thomas Moeller Kristensen, September 1993, 25
pages.
"Thinking about Virtual Reality: An Interview with Michael Heim," by
Geert Lovink, 60-minute audio tape, made at the Amsterdam conference
"Doors of Perception," October 30, 1993, broadcast on the Dutch
radio program "Papae." (available online, see link at www.mheim.com)
"Philosopher of Cyberland," feature in the 45-minute television
documentary Cyberland by Eike Barmeyer, broadcast on German stations
NDR, WDR, SWF in December 1993, video available.
"The Essence of VR," Idealistic Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 23/ No. 1, Winter 1993, pp. 49-62.
"The Gyrosphere in the House of Blue Lights," Siggraph '93
Conference Proceedings, paper given for the panel "Nan-o-Sex and
Virtual Seduction" at Siggraph '93, Anaheim, California, August 5,
1993, abstract pp. 396-7.
"Crossroads in Virtual Reality," in Understanding Images: Finding
Meaning in Digital Imagery, edited by Frank Marchese, (TELOS,
The Electronic Library of Science, Santa Clara, California) Telos-Springer
Press, New York, 1995.
"Cybersage Does Tai Chi," in the anthology Falling in Love with
Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling, edited
by David Karnos and Robert Shoemaker, Oxford University Press, 1993,
pp. 205-09.
"The Computer as Component: Heidegger and McLuhan," Philosophy
and Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press), October 1992,
pp. 33-44.
"The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace," in Cyberspace: First Steps,
edited by Michael Benedikt, MIT Press 1991, pp. 59-80. (translations
into French, Italian, and Japanese; revised version published in the
Netherlands in: E. Agricola (ed):Archipolis: over de grenzen van
architektuur. December 1994, Studium Generale TU Delft) An early
version of the paper was a talk at the First Conference on
Cyberspace held at the University of Texas in Austin, May 4-5, 1989.
"Metaphysics Lite," in Writing Sociology, published by the
Department of Sociology, North Carolina State University), Fall,
1993, Volume 1, No. 2.
"Heidegger and Computers," in The Question of Hermeneutics,
edited by Timothy J. Stapleton, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 397-423.
"Metaphysics Lite," in Writing Sociology, published by the
Department of Sociology, North Carolina State University), Fall,
1993, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 3-4.
"The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality," Multimedia Review,
Issue Three ("New Paradigms"), published by Meckler Publishing, pp.
27-34. This essay also appears in the Meckler reprint of Issue Two
("Virtual Reality"). Was the basis for a talk on the program
"Virtual Reality: Theory, Practice, and Promise" in San Francisco,
December 10, 1990 (video available from Meckler).
Translation of Walter Biemel's "The Transformation in Husserl's
Later Philosophy," in The Question of Hermeneutics, edited by
Timothy J. Stapleton, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1994.
"A Suggestion for T'ai Chi Knee," in T'ai Chi Magazine,
October 1992, Wayfarer Publications, Los Angeles, p. 27.
"Remembering the Body Temple," in The Healing Tao Journal,
Spring 1991, Volume 1, Number 4, pp. 10-12.
"Reflections on the Computer Screen," an electronic lecture (70
kilobytes) first given in February 1990 at the New School for Social
Research graduate program in Communications (directed by Professor
Paul Levinson); also published online in June 1990 by the electronic
journal PostModern Culture edited by John Unsworth and Elaine
Orr at North Carolina State University. (available online, see link
at www.mheim.com)
"Searching for the Essence of Tai Chi," in The Healing Tao
Journal, Winter 1989, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 21-24.
"Infomania," in the anthology The State of the Language,
edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels, (University of
California Press, 1990), pp. 300-06. "Infomania" was reprinted in
London in the newspaper The Independent on January 5, 1990, where
Anthony Burgess reviewed it. "Infomania" was subsequently reprinted
in the international journal Electric Word, March 1990, where the
author was a cover feature.
"Speaking of Warm Current Energy," in The Healing Tao Journal,
Spring 1989, Volume 1, Number 1, p. 3.
"The Technological Crisis of Rhetoric," in Philosophy and
Rhetoric, 1988, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 48-59.
"Grassi's Experiment: The Renaissance through Phenomenology,"
Research in Phenomenology (Humanities Press), Volume XVIII,
1988, pp. 233-263.
"The Finite Framework of Language," Philosophy Today, Spring
1987, Volume XXXI, no. 1, pp. 3-20.
"This Article Might Have Been Better Before Computers," Op-Ed essay
in The Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1987.
"Taming the 200: A Souped-Up Portable," Portable Computer
Magazine, December 1988.
"On The Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism," (review article),
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 2, 1989.
"The Sound of Being's Body," (review article) in Man and World:
An International Philosophical Review, Volume 21, (1988), pp.
469-482.
"Humanistic Discussion and the Online Conference," in Philosophy
Today, Winter 1986, Volume XXX, no. 4, pp. 278-288. Also
appeared as an electronic lecture on the mainframe computer at the
University of Southern California for a course and interdisciplinary
symposium directed by Professor Harvey Wheeler of the Institute for
Higher Studies at the University of Southern California.
"Reason as Response to Nuclear Terror," Philosophy Today,
Winter 1984, Volume XXVIII, no. 4, pp. 300-307. A more developed and
later version of the paper was the basis for a talk at the meeting
of American Philosophical Association in Boston, December 1986.
"The Impact of Computerized Writing on the Human Thought Process: A
Philosophical Investigation," Proceedings of the Ninth Western
Educational Computing Conference: 1985 (California Educational
Computing Consortium), pp. 95-102, delivered in Oakland, California;
originally given on the regular program of the American
Philosophical Association in New York City, December 1984.
"Die Auswirkungen der Computer-Textverarbeitung auf den Denkprozess,"
in the published papers of the 1984 Zurich Discourses. First
delivered in Switzerland as part of the 1984 Zurich Discourses.
(This is a considerably expanded German version of the paper
mentioned above.)
"Philosophical Letters" from the Grassi-Heim correspondence, The
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 11, no. 4, 1984, pp.
335ff.
"A Philosophy of Comparison: Heidegger and Lao Tzu," The Journal
of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 11, no. 4, 1984, pp. 307-335.
Translation of Georg Picht's "Some Fundamental Thoughts on a
Philosophy of Music," Contemporary German Philosophy
(anthology, Pennsylvania State University Press), Volume IV, 1984,
pp. 244-261.
"Authenticity Is Not A Real Predicate," Research in Phenomenology
(Humanities Press), Volume XIII, 1983, pp. 199-207. First
delivered on the regular program of the American Philosophical
Association in Baltimore, December 1982.
"The Realization of Infinity: On the Philosophy of John M.
Anderson," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume
43, no. 4, June 1983, pp. 541-550.
"Topics, Topicality: The New Topos," Philosophy Today, Summer
1981, Volume XXV, no. 2, pp. 131-138.
"Philosophy as Ultimate Rhetoric," The Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume XIX, no. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 181-195.
Translation (with Bruce Foltz) of Hebel--Friend of the House by
Martin Heidegger, Contemporary German Philosophy (anthology,
Pennsylvania State University Press), Volume III, 1984, pp. 89-101.
"The Mystic and the Myth: Thoughts on The Snow Leopard," Studia
Mystica, Volume IV, no. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 3-9.
Translation of "Ontological Problems of Community" by Eugen Fink,
Contemporary German Philosophy (anthology, Pennsylvania State
University Press), Volume II, 1983, pp. 1-19.
"Some Philosophical Proposals for the Role of the Humanities: Toward
a Postmodern Logic," Kinesis, Spring 1979, pp. 39-46.
"The Rescuing of Reason: Kant and the Foundations of Metaphysics,"
Dialogue, Volume 13, nos. 1 and 2, May 1971, pp. 51-57.
Editor of the Chronicles of Man and World: An International
Philosophical Review, 1978-1986.
Contributing Editor, Idealistic Studies (Clark University),
1992-94.
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