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...

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Other Authors: Gehmann, Ulrich (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript 2014
Series:Culture & Theory
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (460 S.) Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9783839426081
DOI:10.14361/transcript.9783839426081