Ken Goldberg's new book [He is Professor at University if California,
Berkeley] "The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on
the Internet" is coming in next Spring 2000 from MIT Press.
For details about the book, please point your browser to
<http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/mitpress.html>
Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close
range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. --Walter Benjamin, 1936
The book examines the relationship of distance and knowledge in the
context of new technology. The book also discussed What is knowledge? What
can we know? What should we rely on as evidence?
Some of the confirmed contributors are Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus,
Thomas Campanella, John Canny, Judith S. Donath, Alvin Goldman, Oliver
Grau -a German Artist/Historian and many others..mostly are from Media
Arts Deptt. of MIT, Boston!
The book will be great help for the training people!
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
--Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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