Real Virtuality : : About the Destruction and Multiplication of World / / ed. by Martin Reiche, Ulrich Gehmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, David,; Braverman, Irus,; Conrad, Marc,; Cremers, Martin,; Diamantaki, Katerina,; Fominykh, Mikhail,; French, Tim,; Gehmann, Ulrich,; Gerard, Pierre-François,; Gerbing, Chris,; Getchell, Kristoffer,; Johansson, Michael,; Koshy, Lyzgeo M.,; Krämer, Steffen,; Langenbach, Randolph,; Negele, Manfred,; Reiche, Martin,; Rieser, Martin,; Ritsos, Panagiotis D.,; Smith, Carl,; Stern, Gerd,; Wilke, Sabine,; Åberg, Kristoffer,; Öze, Erhan,
• HerausgeberIn: Gehmann, Ulrich,; Reiche, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; The Frame Context --; Chapter 1. The Beginnings --; The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene --; Thomas Jefferson’s University --; The Building of a Symbolic Image --; Chapter 2. The Unfoldings --; The World as Grid --; Gotham City --; Good Night, Zoo --; Chapter 3. Virtualization Gains Momentum --; A Paradise of Decorated Sheds --; The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat --; The Community Question --; Real Virtuality --; The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space --; The Destruction of Space by Augmentation --; Chapter 4. Facets of Acceleration in Hybrid Spaces --; Mixed Reality --; Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction --; Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds --; Identity in Virtual Worlds --; Beyond the Visible Autonomy --; Chapter 5. Beyond Acceleration --; “Unheimlich”: The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts --; Against the Self-Evident --; Explorable Spaces --; List of Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839426081; 9783110369526; 9783110370416; 9783111025223; 9783110489842; 9783110661552; 9783110401226
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839426081?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Martin Reiche, Ulrich Gehmann.

Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.