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Aesthetics of the Virtual / Roberto Diodato ; Revised and Edited by Silvia Benso ; Translated by Justin L. Harmon ; Foreword by John Protevi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diodato, Roberto.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
- SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- Estetica del virtualel. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and technology.
- Virtual reality in art.
- Virtual reality--Philosophy.
- Virtual reality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that the virtual body is something new—namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world—Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Aristotle's Physics between natural and artificial beings—they are both. They are beings that are simultaneously events; they are images that are at once internal and external; they are ontological hybrids that exist only in the interaction between logical-computational text and human bodies endowed with technological prostheses. Pursuing this line of thought, Diodato reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts such as mimesis, representation, the relation between illusion and reality, the nature of images and imagination, and the theory of sensory knowledge.
- Contents:
- ""Aesthetics of the Virtual""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by John Protevi""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Aesthetics of the Virtual Body""; ""Chapter 2: My Body in the Virtual Environment""; ""Chapter 3: Forms of Expression""; ""Chapter 4: Toward the Image""; ""Chapter 5: Metaphors of the Virtual""; ""Chapter 6: The Concept of the Virtual""; ""Chapter 7: The Virtual Actor-Spectator""; ""Chapter 8: For an Aesthetics of the Hypertext""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438444376
- 1438444370
- OCLC:
- 819379715
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