Virtual Reality.

Virtual Reality.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Leiden : BRILL, 2015.
Series:Critical Posthumanisms Ser.
Subjects:
Virtual reality.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: Narrated Time and Non-Narrated Time or Why We Are All Dreaming of the Japanese Clock
  • FEATURE SCENE I CLONED REALITIES: EAT YOUR CAKE AND DREAM IT
  • 1. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism and the Search for the Absolutely Real: When Friedrich Bouterwek Invented Virtual Reality
  • 2. Posthumanism: The "Autistic Condition?"
  • FEATURE SCENE II "YOUR FACE IS A SCAPE": AN EXERCISE IN FACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY
  • 3. From Civilization to Culture: About the Dreamlike Character of Global Civilization
  • FEATURE SCENE III LIQUID GRAMMAR, LIQUID STYLE: ON THE EAST-ASIAN WAY OF USING ENGLISH OR THE PHENOMENON OF "LINGUISTIC AIR-GUITARS"
  • 4. Genes and Pixels: Bio-Genetics' Posthuman Aesthetics of the Virtual
  • FEATURE SCENE IV THE NEW SURREALISM: LOFT-STORIES, REALITY TELEVISION, AND AMATEUR DREAM-CENSORS
  • 5. Posthumanism and "Multi-Realism": Comparing The Matrix with Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris
  • FEATURE SCENE V CAR DESIGN AND GENETICS: THE NEW MINI AND JAPANESE POTTERY (FOLLOWED BY AN INTERVIEW WITH RAKU KICHIZAEMON)
  • 6. The Aesthetics of Frozen Dreams: Jeff Koons and Mariko Mori
  • FEATURE SCENE VI OVERCOMING THE LOGOS - OVERCOMING LEGO: FROM IMAGINED SPACE TO THE SPATIAL IMAGINATION OF CYBORGS
  • 7. From Perspective to "All-Unity" or the Narrative of Virtual Cosmology
  • FEATURE SCENE VII IN PRAISE OF BLANDNESS: SOME THOUGHTS ON JAPANESE TELEVISION
  • 8. What Would Nietzsche have Thought about Virtual Reality? Nietzsche and Cyberpunk
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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