Virtual reality : the last human narrative?.

Virtual reality : the last human narrative?.

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. Psychoanalysi...

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Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: [S.l.] : Rodopi, 2015.

Series: Critical Posthumanisms 1.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Virtual reality > Philosophy.
Reality.

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Call Number: BD331 .B68 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: Narrated Time and Non-Narrated Time or Why We Are All Dreaming of the Japanese Clock
  • 1. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism and the Search for the Absolutely Real: When Friedrich Bouterwek Invented Virtual Reality
  • 2. Posthumanism: The "Autistic Condition?"
  • 3. From Civilization to Culture: About the Dreamlike Character of Global Civilization
  • 4. Genes and Pixels: Bio-Genetics' Posthuman Aesthetics of the Virtual
  • 5. Posthumanism and "Multi-Realism": Comparing The Matrix with Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris
  • 6. The Aesthetics of Frozen Dreams: Jeff Koons and Mariko Mori
  • 7. From Perspective to "All-Unity" or the Narrative of Virtual Cosmology
  • 8. What Would Nietzsche have Thought about Virtual Reality? Nietzsche and Cyberpunk
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.