Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?
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2015
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-2109-9 (ISBN)
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-2109-9 (ISBN)
Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? This book attempts to disentangle the common characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality by examining discourses on psychoanalysis, gene-technology, globalization, and contemporary art.
Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an “original event” to a virtual “narrative”. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream’s symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a “gene code”. Discourses on “globalization” let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called “virtual”. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.
Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an “original event” to a virtual “narrative”. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream’s symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a “gene code”. Discourses on “globalization” let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called “virtual”. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany in 1964, studied philosophy in Paris, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is now Associate Professor of philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.7.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Critical Posthumanisms ; 1 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 513 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 90-420-2109-8 / 9042021098 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-420-2109-9 / 9789042021099 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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