1983.0400 Cultures Of The Imagination

 

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Cultures Of The Imagination
Durinh April 1983, the first “Contact Conference” organised by Jim Funaro to encourage interdisciplinary speculation about what lies ahead as we enter the space age. The main event was a Cultures Of The Imagination (“COTI”) experiment, in which participants design an integrated world, alien and its way of life, and simulate contact with a future human society.

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Background article by Jim Funaro available online on the Contact Conference website at:

http://www.contact-conference.com/archive/history.html

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Book References

For discussion see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 (in Chapter 2) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

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1990

White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-110 (in Chapter 7), 145-148 (in Chapter 9) of the Walker hardback edition.

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Other Material