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...

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