Real Virtuality : : About the Destruction and Multiplication of World / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edition Kulturwissenschaft ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (470 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |