Introduction Mercedes Vilanova and Frederic Chordá
Chapter 1: Ahead of His Time:
The Digital Age
Peter Bøgh Andersen, Cohesion and Coherence in Programs
Frieder Nake, Third Culture Man
A Civilization of Many Literacies
Frederic Chordá, Civilization of Illiteracy: Language, Reality and Renewal
Steven Bleicher, Literacy Lost
Blossom Kirschenbaum, We don’t have to join the culture of illiteracy, but it helps to understand it
Victor Terras, A Positive Pragmatist
Jay Lemke, Beyond Literacy: Semiotics and the Civilization of Hypercomplexity
E.D. Hirsch, Jr., "...transcends McLuhan"
Umberto Eco, "...not among the usual lamentations"
Intelligence is Process
Philip L. Smith, Go Reconfigure: Ideas About Education in the Digital Age
Corinne Whitaker, Reinventing the Mind
Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Cognitive Energy:
Twelve Themes in the Work of Mihai Nadin
Heinz von Foerster, "Mind manifests itself in dialogue...."
Identity
Mercedes Vilanova, The values of the civilization of literacy are no longer valid
Thomas Gillespie, Ich Bin Ein Illiteratus
Solomon Marcus, He was never only what he seemed to be
Chapter 2: Mihai Nadin: Imprints of Knowledge
The History of the Future
The Message is the Medium
The Architecture of Thought
Themes in Mihai Nadin’s work
History and Awareness of the Future
Anticipation – A Spooky Computation
Aesthetics
Negotiating the World of Make-Believe
Art and Technology
Science and Beauty: Aesthetic Structuring of Knowledge
Art history and criticism
…That Old Sire
Chapter 3: Mihai Nadin: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
Short stories
Letters
Suicide
In the Right Direction
Enthusiasm
Words
Permission to Think
The Ruins of Utopia
Novels (excerpts)
A Day for Jewels
Suspension of Gravity
EXIT
Poetry
1964 – 1966
1978 – 1980
Drama
The Longest Wait
Contributors
Index