Virtual Reality : The Last Human Narrative?
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9789042021099
- ISBN-10: 9042021098
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: July 2015
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.1 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
- Page Count: 242
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