Davin Heckman’s RetroTechnics

Other Publications

Editorials for Reconstruction

Editorial” (Winter 2005).

With Patrick Vrooman “Teaching in the Middle: An Ordinary Revolution” (Fall 2003).

Solutions/Fixations: a transformation” (Summer 2003).

With Michael Benton, Alan Clinton, Subhash Jaireth, Marc Ouellette, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer “What We Write and Why” (Winter 2003).

Reconstructing Year One” (Fall 2002).

With Matthew Wolf-Meyer “Navigating the Starless Night: Strategies for Understanding Autobiogeography” (Summer 2002).

With Matthew Wolf-Meyer “Keywords in the Post-Mechanic Codex” (Spring 2002).

With Matthew Wolf-Meyer “FAQ: Theory, Practice, and the Journal” (Fall 2001).

Reviews for Reconstruction

Abbott, Andrew. Time Matters: On Theory and Method. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001.

Brunner, John. The Sheep Look Up. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2003.

Flusser, Vilem. Writings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Hodge, Stephen, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, Cathy Turner, and Tony Weaver. An Exeter Mis-Guide. Wrights & Sites, 2003.

Kotkin, Joel. The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape. New York: Random House, 2000.

Misa, Thomas J., Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg, editors. Modernity and Technology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

Mitchell, William J. Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Virilio, Paul. Art and Fear. Trans. Julie Rose. London: Continuum, 2003.

Virilio, Paul. Crepuscular Dawn. New York: Semiotext(e), 2002.

Virilio, Paul. The Information Bomb. Trans. Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 2000.

Virilio, Paul. A Landscape of Events. Trans. Julie Rose. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Virilio, Paul. Strategy of Deception. Trans. Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 2000.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Player Piano . New York: Dell, 1992.

Wimsatt, William “Uspki”. Bomb the Suburbs. San Francisco: Soft Skull Press, 2000.

Assorted Projects

Serial Adventure: Walking in the Mall of America” (Fall 2001).

With Carrie McKee. AMERICAN SKY BURIAL (April 2000).

Assorted Flash Pieces

For Sondheim, Alan (Spring 2003) “CodeworldRhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 5.

For Wark, McKenzie (Spring 2003) “Escape from the Dual EmpireRhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 6.

Heckman, Davin (Fall 2002) “Who Chews First?Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 5.

For Smith, C. Jason (Winter 2002) “The Observing Body: Quantum Mechanics, the Anthropic Principles,and PanopticismReconstruction (reconstruction.eserver.org), 2.1.

For Lavazzi, Tom (Fall 2002) “Fantasy.Com: Game OneRhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 5.

For Hendandez, Ramona (Fall 2001) “Whose Encyclopedia?” Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 3.

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