Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityIn Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs. |
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... Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Liberation just before the war's outbreak.1 Although, as French scholars will know, the phrase was an allusion to Jean Giraudoux's play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, Baudrillard meant ...
... Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Liberation just before the war's outbreak.1 Although, as French scholars will know, the phrase was an allusion to Jean Giraudoux's play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, Baudrillard meant ...
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... Baudrillard, the War That Did Not Take Place took place not on the deserts of Arabia; it took place on screens of ... Baudrillard's argument, echoed throughout the radical French press, was that there was no 'thing itself', no 'real' war ...
... Baudrillard, the War That Did Not Take Place took place not on the deserts of Arabia; it took place on screens of ... Baudrillard's argument, echoed throughout the radical French press, was that there was no 'thing itself', no 'real' war ...
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... Baudrillard's argument is that the Gulf War was a staged event in which the stage was not to be found in the theatre of war. It was, he wrote, a 'virtual' war, breaking the classical chain of logic from virtual to actual by moving in ...
... Baudrillard's argument is that the Gulf War was a staged event in which the stage was not to be found in the theatre of war. It was, he wrote, a 'virtual' war, breaking the classical chain of logic from virtual to actual by moving in ...
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... Baudrillard does not make much effort to explain them . Their importance lies in providing a run - up for the final , and for Baudrillard terminal , stage , the stage of pure simulation , when signs cease to signify anything real ...
... Baudrillard does not make much effort to explain them . Their importance lies in providing a run - up for the final , and for Baudrillard terminal , stage , the stage of pure simulation , when signs cease to signify anything real ...
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... Baudrillard feels is the 'perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulation'.22 'Disneyland is there to ... Baudrillard's argument is that California's Disneyland, like all theme parks, is there as a substitute for a diminishing ...
... Baudrillard feels is the 'perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulation'.22 'Disneyland is there to ... Baudrillard's argument is that California's Disneyland, like all theme parks, is there as a substitute for a diminishing ...
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