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020			_a9789004302303 _q(electronic book)
020			_z9789042021099 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004302303 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)918997533
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050		4	_aBD331 _b.B68 2015
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082	0	4	_a111 _223
100	1		_aBotz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
245	1	0	_aVirtual reality : _bthe last human narrative?.
264		1	_a[S.l.] : _bRodopi, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (242 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCritical Posthumanisms ; _v1
505	0	0	_aPreliminary 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.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aIs 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.
650		0	_aVirtual reality _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aReality.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tVirtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2015, _z9789042021099
830		0	_aCritical Posthumanisms _v1.
830		0	_aReligious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004302303
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