IMAGOLOGIES and other philosophical conversations with Mark C. Taylor Mass Humanities January 1997 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 Mark C. Taylor is Preston S. Parish Third Century Professor of Humanities at Williams College where he teaches courses on religion, philosophy, literary criticism, art, architecture, and the electronic frontier. He is a pioneer of the global classroom via teleconferencing technology and has published 14 books, including Imagologies, co-written with Esa Saarinen (Routledge, New York, 1994). Professor Taylor was interviewed in January, 1997 by David Lionel Smith, Professor of English and Dean of Faculty at Williams College, and Vice President of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. David Lionel Smith: Mark, let's start with Imagologies. It's a book that really challenges a lot of our fundamental assumptions about the making of a book, about the transmission of knowledge, and about fundamental philosophical issues of depth and surface. Could you describe how the project came into being, the course on which it is based, and the results you hoped to achieve in both the course and the book?