Background Reader on Camillo and Memory
The History of Memory
The Renaissance Theater of Memory
Technology, New Media and the Third Noetic Economy
Hermeticism and Natural Magic

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 129-159.

Lu Beery Wenneker, "An Examination of L'Idea del Theatro of Giulio Camillo," dissertation, University of Pittsburg, 1970, 54-93, 187-390 with ellipses.

Richard Bernheimer, "Theatrum Mundi," The Art Bulletin 38 (1956): 225-247.

James Splawn, "Memory Theater for Absolute Chattanooga," dissertation, Auburn University, 1986, 40-69.

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory, paperback edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 1-49.

Lina Bolzoni, "The Play of Images. The Art of Memory from its Origins to the Seventeenth Century," in The Enchanted Loom: Chapters in the History of Neuro-Science, ed. Pietro Corsi (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 16-65.

Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture, paperback edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1-107.

M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307. 2nd ed. (Oxford and Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1993), 253-293.

Walter Ong, Ramus, Method and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), 104-112, 116-121.

Richard McKeon, "Arts of Invention and Arts of Memory: Creation and Criticism," Critical Inquiry 1 (1974-1975): 723-739.

Gordon H. Bower, "Analysis of a Mnemonic Device," American Scientist 58:5 (Sept.-Oct. 1970): 496-510.

Mark Johnson, "The Imaginative Basis of Meaning and Cognition," in Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation, ed. Susanne Küchler and Walter Melion (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 74-86.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (New York: Touchstone, 1986), 81-92.

Alan Radley, "Artefacts, Memory and a Sense of the Past," in Collective Remembering, ed. David Middleton and Derek Edwards (London: SAGE Publications, 1990), 46-59.

Bruce Lincoln, Death, War and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 49-61.

Walter Ong, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture (Itahca: Cornell University Press, 1971), 104-112.

Steven Rose, The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind (New York: Anchor Books, 1992), 60-99.

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory, paperback edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 368-389.

Ann Moss, Printed Commonplace Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 100-166.

E. H. Gombrich, Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), 145-180.

Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard Trask, Bollingen Series, 36 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 128-144.

Krzysztof Pomian, "Vision and Cognition," in Picturing Science, Producing Art, Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), 211-231.

Svetlana Alpers, "The Studio, the Laboratory, and the Vexations of Art," in Picturing Science, Producing Art, Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), 401-417.

Frances Yates, Theatre of the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), 136-161.

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 320-341.

Jack D'Amico, "The Treatment of Space in Italian and English Renaissance Theater: The Example of Gl'Ingannati and Twelfth Night," Comparative Drama 23:3 (Fall 1989): 265-283.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, On the Line, trans. John Johnston, Foreign Agents Series (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 1-65.

Vivian Sobchack, The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 51-57, 69-76, 85.

Walter Ong, In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 1-16.

Roger Silverstone, "Television, Rhetoric, and the Return of the Unconscious in Secondary Oral Culture," in Media, Consciousness and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong's Thought, ed. Bruce E. Gronbeck, Thomas J. Farrell, and Paul A. Soukup (London: SAGE, 1991), 147-159.

Philip Leith, "Postmedieval Information Processing and Contemporary Computer Science," in Media, Consciousness and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong's Thought, ed. Bruce E. Gronbeck, Thomas J. Farrell, and Paul A. Soukup (London: SAGE, 1991), 160-176.

Thomas O. Sloane, "Reading Milton Rhetorically," in Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric, ed. James J. Murphy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983), 394-410.

Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 62-111 and 201-234.

Mark Stefik, Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996), xv-xxiv, 1-38, and 317-343.

Alan C. Purves, The Web of Text and the Web of God: An Essay on the Third Information Transformation (New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1998), 100-175.

Susan Leigh Star, "Introduction," in The Cultures of Computing, ed. Susan Leigh Star (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), 1-28.

Mike Hales, "Information Systems Strategy, a Cultural Borderland, Some Monstrous Behavior," in The Cultures of Computing, ed. Susan Leigh Star (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), 103-117.

Robert Alun Jones and Rand J. Spiro, "Contextualization, Cognitive Flexibility, and Hypertext: The Convergence of Interpretive Theory, Cognitive Psychology, and Advanced Information Technologies," in The Cultures of Computing, ed. Susan Leigh Star (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), 146-157.

Karen Ruhleder, "'Pulling Down' Books vs. 'Pulling Up' Files: Textual Databanks and the Changing Culture of Classical Scholarship," in The Cultures of Computing, ed. Susan Leigh Star (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), 181-195.

Lev Manovich, "Database as a Genre of New Media," online: http://arts.ucsb.edu/~vesna/AI_Society/manovich.html

Victoria Vesna, "Database Aesthetics: Of Containers, Chronofiles, Time Capsules, Xanadu, Alexandria and the World Brain," online: http://arts.ucsb.edu/~vesna/AI_Society/vesna_esasy.html

Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 1-19, 62-83.

D. P. Walker, Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella (London: The Warburg Institute, 1958), 3-29, 75-84.

Wayne Schumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972), 108-120, 201-232.

Karen Silvia de Léon-Jones, Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah: Prophets, Magicians and Rabbis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 17-52.

Paolo Rossi, "Hermeticism, Rationality and the Scientific Revolution," in Reason, Experiment and Mysticism in the Scientific, ed. M. L. Righini Bonelli and William R. Shea (New York: Science History Publications, 1975), 247-273.