| Description |
1 online resource (460 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture & theory ; [37] |
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Edition Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 37.
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| Contents |
The beginnings -- The unfoldings -- Virtualization gains momentum -- Facets of acceleration in hybrid spaces -- Beyond acceleration |
| 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 mean |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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Reality.
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Spatial behavior.
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Space and time.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Spatial behavior
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Space and time
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Reality
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gehmann, Ulrich, editor
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Reiche, Martin, editor
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Stern, Gerd, writer of preface
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| ISBN |
9783839426081 |
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3839426081 |
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