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Virtual Reality: the Last Human Narrative?

By Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2015
ISBN
9789004302303, 9789042021099
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6063435 bytes)
Series
Critical Posthumanisms Series
Edition
1
Pages
242\242
Time added
2023-08-16 05:49:09
PHI016000

Description

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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