Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityPenguin Books, 1993 - 274 pagina's In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs. |
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Pagina 174
... truth , at least the obvious sort yielded by the physical world ; that it is about a higher truth or a higher reality , or at any rate something better than what we get at ground level . This reaction , though expressed by Baudelaire in ...
... truth , at least the obvious sort yielded by the physical world ; that it is about a higher truth or a higher reality , or at any rate something better than what we get at ground level . This reaction , though expressed by Baudelaire in ...
Pagina 176
... truth into the maelstrom of modernity- not even these , he argued , could be elevated above the battlefield of life ... truth in the material world by searching for it elswhere . Modernism was about disenchantment with material truth and ...
... truth into the maelstrom of modernity- not even these , he argued , could be elevated above the battlefield of life ... truth in the material world by searching for it elswhere . Modernism was about disenchantment with material truth and ...
Pagina 198
... truth it is the truth which conceals that there is none . The simulacrum is true./20 The ' finest allegory ' of simulation for Baudrillard was - as it should be for any authentic analysis of postmodernism - an idea from a Borges short ...
... truth it is the truth which conceals that there is none . The simulacrum is true./20 The ' finest allegory ' of simulation for Baudrillard was - as it should be for any authentic analysis of postmodernism - an idea from a Borges short ...
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