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Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? (Critical Posthumanisms, 1) by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? (Critical Posthumanisms, 1) about?

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.

Author

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill NV

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789042021099

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Technology