Author: Kathleen Cool

I apologize for these sporadic postings… my dissertation has been keeping me busy, although I have to…

Van’s proposition to turn my “childhood dreams” into virtual world reality got me really excited. And what…

Maybe it’s all these great diary posts Van has been doing on her grad school performances, but…

Given that I am using a Hermeneutic Phenomenological approach, it must come as no surprise that Heidegger’s…

Given our discussion yesterday on stereotypes and prejudices in SL and other virtual worlds, I thought I’d…

Reading Ravanel’s fantastic article on identity in online gaming environments reminded of my initial shock at the…

I know, I know, I haven’t been as prompt with my blog postings this week. Here’s the…

I don’t think that I would be exaggerating if I said that I’ve always loved to write….

I can’t deny that I am a huge fan of Antonin Artaud’s oeuvre, or that his conceptualization…

I don’t know why I’m suddenly so sensitive to the notion of time and reality, but it…

If I’ve learned anything so far from this research, it is that virtual reality and “real” reality…

Kris’s inclusion of a quote by Naomi Wolf in her last post (see “This is my body!”)…

While I have been focusing on Marcel Duchamp and/or Rrose Selavy for the last couple of days…

I came across this clever YouTube video yesterday while brushing up my knowledge of Rrose Selavy (Duchamp’s…

In the wake of all these great posts on identity in virtual worlds (and RL – thanks,…

For the past couple of days, I’ve been dissecting/overanalyzing/pondering Kris’ performance/post “The Bald and the Beautiful.” What…

At the risk of sounding like a total noob (yes, I have been a SL “resident” since…

Yesterday, I received an email from Rowan Derryth that the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) was…

  As some of you may have noticed from my posts, I’ve had an innate fascination for…

For obvious reasons, a recurring theme in art history since the beginning of times, and in every…

As a qualitative researcher, one of my primary areas of concern when conducting research in a RL…

All this talk about Cartesian Dualism and Daniel Dennett’s entertaining interpretations of what it could mean in the…

Ok, so this has absolutely nothing to do with Virtual Education or virtual anything for that matter….

It may seem ironic, at first glance to be “dissing” Cartesian philosophy on a blog titled “I…

Reading  Vaneeesa’s interpretation of what is presence in virtual worlds made me think of an article I…

Not surprisingly, my favorite writer of all times is William Burroughs. I went so far as to…

I’ve been pondering how to make research more transparent for a few years now, and I have…

Watching Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” made me want to revisit the concept of presence in art,…

All this talk about Salons and blogs got me thinking about the role of virtual worlds in…

I am by no means an expert on the topics of salons or blogs, but I do…