“The first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. He describes various types of filmmaking utilising new technology, including film special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments and holography.” (Wikipedia)

Inexorable evolution and human ecology / R. Buckminster Fuller -- pt. 1. The audience and the myth of entertainment : Radical evolution and future shock in the paleocybernetic age ; The intermedia network as nature ; Popular culture and the noosphere ; Art, entertainment, entropy ; Retrospective man and the human condition ; The artist as design scientist -- pt. 2. Synaesthetic cinema: the end of drama : Global closed circuit: the earth as software ; Synaesthetic synthesis: simultaneous perception of harmonic opposites ; Syncretism and metamorphosis: montage as collage ; Evocation and exposition: toward oceanic consciousness ; Synaesthetics and kinaesthetics: the way of all experience ; Mythopoeia: the end of fiction ; Synaesthetics and synergy ; Synaesthetic cinema and polymorphous eroticism ; Synaesthetic cinema and extra-objective reality ; Image-exchange and the post-mass audience age -- pt. 3. Toward cosmic consciousness : 2001: the new nostalgia ; The stargate corridor ; The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson -- pt. 4. Cybernetic cinema and computer films : The technosphere: man/machine symbiosis ; The human bio-computer and his electronic brainchild ; Hardware and software ; The aesthetic machine ; Cybernetic cinema ; Computer films -- pt. 5. Television as a creative medium : The videosphere ; Cathode-ray tube videotronics ; Synaesthetic videotapes ; Videographic cinema ; Closed-circuit television and teledynamic environments -- pt. 6. Intermedia : The artist as ecologist ; World expositions and nonordinary reality ; Cerebrum: intermedia and the human sensorium ; Intermedia theatre ; Multiple-projection environments -- pt. 7. Holographic cinema: a new world : Wave-front reconstruction: lensless photography ; Dr. Alex Jacobson: holography in motion ; Limitations of holographic cinema ; Projecting holographic movies ; The kinoform: computer-generated holographic movies ; Technoanarchy: the open empire.