I put my doctoral dissertation online where it should be: on my own site, as a free PDF, with the citation details and context needed for readers to find the work without going through dissertation aggregation sites.
The dissertation is titled The Reality Effect of Technoscience. I completed it in September 2004 for the PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Donna Haraway chaired the committee, with Teresa de Lauretis and Lisa Rofel as committee members.
The project studies how technoscientific artifacts become believable, useful, consequential, and culturally real. The cases are virtual reality, the special effects of Jurassic Park, and SimCity2000. Each one became a way to understand how science fact, science fiction, institutions, software, visual culture, audiences, and technical work circulate around each other.
Read the full dissertation page, citation, abstract, and embedded PDF.
The correct citation is:
Bleecker, Julian C. The Reality Effect of Technoscience. PhD dissertation, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004.
I am publishing this here because the work should be discoverable from the author, in a free and citeable form. If someone searches for “Julian Bleecker dissertation,” “The Reality Effect of Technoscience PDF,” “History of Consciousness technoscience dissertation,” or related terms around virtual reality, Jurassic Park, SimCity2000, and science fiction technology studies, this page and the canonical dissertation page should be the path into the work.
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