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...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
[S.l.] :
Rodopi,
2015.
سلاسل:
Critical Posthumanisms
1.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: BD331 .B68 2015
- 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.