The phenomenology of virtual technology : perception and imagination in a digital age / Daniel O'Shiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Shiel, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual reality--Philosophy.

Virtual reality.

Perception.

Imagination.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Perception, imagination and the challenge of virtuality

1. Husserl

1.1. Husserl's perception

1.2. Presentation, presentification and phantasy

1.3. The problem of image-consciousness

2. Fink

2.1. Presentation, depresentation and the various types and nuances of presentification

2.2. Image-consciousness, again

3. Sartre

3.1. Perception and the imaginary

3.2. Sartre's answer for image-consciousness

3.3. Recapitulation and discussion

4. The challenge of virtuality

4.1. Heidegger and our forked being

4.2. Merleau-Ponty and fundamental intertwinement

4.3. Bergson and Deleuze: the reality of the virtual

4.4. Perception and imagination: a difference in kind or degree?

4.5. Real virtualities: self, world, others and values

pt. Two Irreal virtuality: the case of virtual technology

5. Social media

5.1. The significance and influence of social media

5.2. Changed selves, worlds, others and values on social media

5.3. Breeur's challenge: a possibility for real engagement on or through social media?

6. Online gaming

6.1. Games are not perceptions

6.2. The online gaming experience

6.3. Changed selves, worlds, others and values in games

6.4. Reality, irreality, superreality and addiction

7. VR, AR and MR technologies

7.1. A summary of VR, AR and MR technologies

7.2. Changed selves, worlds, others and values in VR, AR and MR technologies

7.3. `Pure' MR and the case of tactile holograms

8. Considerations and consequences

8.1. Virtual technology: its current status and scope

8.2. Blurrings, inversions and collapses? Current trends and future possibilities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350245501

135024550X

OCLC:

1334141933

Publisher Number:

99992321491