Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?
The Last in Human Narrative?
Published on 17. July 2015
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-90-420-2109-9 (ISBN)
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2109-9 (9789042021099)
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany in 1964, studied philosophy in Paris, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is now Associate Professor of philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.