Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 The Emergence of Digital Technology: Chapter 4 The Quantization of Everyday Life Chapter 5 Digital Technology Develops Part 6 Art: Chapter 7 The Work of Art in the Digital Art Chapter 8 Cultural Biases Inherent in Digitization Chapter 9 The Composite Image Part 10 Communication / Media: Chapter 11 Machine Mediation of Social Interaction Chapter 12 The Metaphor of Cyberspace Part 13 Perception / Representation / Cognition: Chapter 14 The Digital Environment Chapter 15 Virtual Reality and Other Substitutes Chapter 16 Indexicality Chapter 17 Epilogue