TY  - BOOK
AU  - Botz-Bornstein,Thorsten
TI  - Virtual reality: the last human narrative?
T2  - Critical Posthumanisms
SN  - 9789004302303
AV  - BD331 .B68 2015
U1  - 111 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Reality
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004302303
ER  -