The phenomenology of virtual technology :
perception and imagination in a digital age /
Daniel O'Shiel.
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| Summary: | The work is divided into two main parts. In the first O'Shiel fully investigates the phenomenological natures of perception and imagination through close textual analyses of the relevant works by Edmund Husserl, Eugen Fink and Jean-Paul Sartre. In each phenomenologist perception and imagination are ultimately seen as different in kind, although the dividing line differs, especially with reference to a middle category of 'image-consciousness' (Bildbewusstsein). This first part argues for basic phenomenological differences between perceptions; physical and external images; and more mental imagery, while also allowing for a more general gradation between them. The second part then applies these theoretical findings to some of the most influential 'virtual technologies' today – social media; online gaming; and some virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies – in order to show how previously clear categories of real and irreal, present and absent, genuine and fake, and even true and false, are becoming less so. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2022.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781350245501 135024550X |
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