Real virtuality : about the destruction and multiplication of world /
Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the old world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For t...
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transcript Verlag,
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Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
Publication Dates: | 2014. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Edition Kulturwissenschaft ;
volume 37 |
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Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the old world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (470 pages). |
ISBN: | 9783839426081 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | HM851 |
CLC: | K02 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Introduction -- The Frame Context -- The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene / Thomas Jefferson s University / The Building of a Symbolic Image / The World as Grid -- Gotham City / Good Night, Zoo / A Paradise of Decorated Sheds / The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat / The Community Question / Real Virtuality / The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space / The Destruction of Space by Augmentation / Mixed Reality / Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction / Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds / Identity in Virtual Worlds / Beyond the Visible Autonomy / "Unheimlich": The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts / Against the Self-Evident / Explorable Spaces / List of Contributors. |