Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Published by transcript Verlag 2014

Real Virtuality

About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

Edited by: Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche
With contributions by: Gerd Stern

Volume 37 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839426081

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About this book

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.
With a Preface by Gerd Stern.

Author / Editor information

Ulrich Gehmann (Dipl.-Biol., lic. oec. HSG et MA History) is founder of the working group »Formatting of Social Spaces« at University of Karlsruhe and editor-in-chief of the journal »New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts«.
Martin Reiche (B.Sc.) is an audiovisual installation artist living and working in Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

»Eine interessante und perspektivenreiche Sammlung, die sich zentralen Beobachtungen und Problemstellungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts widmet.«
Solvejg Nitzke, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2015)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Gerd Stern Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Frame Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 1. The Beginnings
The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene Nature Paintings, Diagrams, and Maps in Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos and Beyond Sabine Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Thomas Jefferson’s University An Architectural Masque David Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Building of a Symbolic Image The Juxtaposition of Giambattista Piranesi’s Vedute Di Roma with Photographs Taken 250 Years Later Randolph Langenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 2. The Unfoldings
The World as Grid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Gotham City A Dystopian Comic Book World as an Arena of Modern Myths Martin Cremers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Good Night, Zoo Children’s Guide to Humanimal Spaces Irus Braverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 3. Virtualization Gains Momentum
A Paradise of Decorated Sheds Consuming Cities, Virtuality and Postmodernism Steffen Krämer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat Artist’s Movies as Virtual Worlds Chris Gerbing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Community Question Manfred Negele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Real Virtuality Gerd Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space Katerina Diamantaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
The Destruction of Space by Augmentation Martin Reiche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Chapter 4. Facets of Acceleration in Hybrid Spaces
Mixed Reality A paradigm for perceiving synthetic spaces Panagiotis D. Ritsos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction Carl Smith and Pierre-François Gerard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds Mikhail Fominykh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Identity in Virtual Worlds Lyzgeo M. Koshy, Kristoffer Getchell, Marc Conrad and Tim French Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Beyond the Visible Autonomy Erhan Öze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Chapter 5. Beyond Acceleration
“Unheimlich”: The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts Martin Rieser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Against the Self-Evident Michael Johansson and Kristoffer Åberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Explorable Spaces A Conclusion Martin Reiche and Ulrich Gehmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 470
Keywords: World-Creations; Functionalization; Space; Mixed Realities; Changes of the Self; Culture; Media; Cultural Theory; Media Theory; Media Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839426081