ABSTRACT
Tracing a cognitive history of space, then, would take us backward in time to the hallucinatory entoptic geometries induced in Magdalenian-era caves and forward to the modern grid, and, now, to Web-based hypermedia. The latter, according to Stephanie Strickland, offer our perceptual system a “new calisthenics,” enlarging the window of the present by bringing to consciousness more fine-grained stimuli, microfluctuations, and fractal patterns.
