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Aesthetics of the Virtual

Aesthetics of the Virtual

Diodato, Roberto
Harmon, Justin L.
Benso, Silvia

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Italian Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1438444362
ISBN13: 9781438444369
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jul 2 2013
Pages: 171
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.

Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Aristotle's Physics between natural and artificial beings-they are both. They are beings that are simultaneously events; they are images that are at once internal and external; they are ontological hybrids that exist only in the interaction between logical-computational text and human bodies endowed with technological prostheses. Pursuing this line of thought, Diodato reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts such as mimesis, representation, the relation between illusion and reality, the nature of images and imagination, and the theory of sensory knowledge.

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