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Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?
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ISBN10: 9042021098
ISBN13: 9789042021099
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 17 2015
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789042021099
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 17 2015
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an original event to a virtual narrative. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream's symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a gene code. Discourses on globalization let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called virtual. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.
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