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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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