Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World
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 the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.
With a Preface by Gerd Stern.
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Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World
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 the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.
With a Preface by Gerd Stern.
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Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Overview

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 the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.
With a Preface by Gerd Stern.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783837626087
Publication date: 07/15/2014
Series: Culture & Theory , #37
Pages: 470
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ulrich Gehmann (Dipl.-Biol., lic. oec. HSG et MA History) is founder of the working group "Formatting of Social Spaces" at University of Karlsruhe and editor-in-chief of the journal "New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts".
Martin Reiche (B.Sc.) is an audiovisual installation artist living and working in Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

I
Table of Contents V
Preface IX
Introduction 1
The Frame Context 21
The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene 47
Thomas Jefferson's University 63
The Building of a Symbolic Image 91
The World as Grid 121
Gotham City 141
Good Night, Zoo 159
A Paradise of Decorated Sheds 179
The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat 193
The Community Question 217
Real Virtuality 231
The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space 243
The Destruction of Space by Augmentation 273
Mixed Reality 283
Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction 311
Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds 337
Identity in Virtual Worlds 369
Beyond the Visible Autonomy 383
"Unheimlich": The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts 405
Against the Self-Evident 419
Explorable Spaces 443
List of Contributors 453
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