Virtual reality : the last human narrative?.
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
Virtual reality : the last human narrative?. - 1 online resource (242 pages) - Critical Posthumanisms ; 1 . - Critical Posthumanisms 1. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471. .
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.
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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.
9789004302303
10.1163/9789004302303 DOI
Virtual reality--Philosophy.
Reality.
BD331 / .B68 2015
111
Virtual reality : the last human narrative?. - 1 online resource (242 pages) - Critical Posthumanisms ; 1 . - Critical Posthumanisms 1. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471. .
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004302303
10.1163/9789004302303 DOI
Virtual reality--Philosophy.
Reality.
BD331 / .B68 2015
111