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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... Postmodernist Fiction, London: Routledge, 1989, p. 109. 7 Michael Swaine, 'Building Xanadu', Dr Dobbs Journal, April 1991, 16 (4), p. 111. 8 Lecture to the Institute of Information Scientists at the Geological Society, London, 3 October ...
... Postmodernist Fiction, London: Routledge, 1989, p. 109. 7 Michael Swaine, 'Building Xanadu', Dr Dobbs Journal, April 1991, 16 (4), p. 111. 8 Lecture to the Institute of Information Scientists at the Geological Society, London, 3 October ...
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... postmodern condition, and virtual reality its definitive technological expression. Every book or meeting on postmodernism begins with attempts to define it. In 1985, at a conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London ...
... postmodern condition, and virtual reality its definitive technological expression. Every book or meeting on postmodernism begins with attempts to define it. In 1985, at a conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London ...
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... postmodernism" '.2 One concerns ways of thinking about art and other forms of expression, which, in postmodern terms, is conducted by a process he compared with Freudian analysis. 'The "post-" of postmodernist does not mean a process of ...
... postmodernism" '.2 One concerns ways of thinking about art and other forms of expression, which, in postmodern terms, is conducted by a process he compared with Freudian analysis. 'The "post-" of postmodernist does not mean a process of ...
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... postmodernism — a trend whose termination, as Jencks reported in the introduction to the sixth edition of his key text (insofar as postmodernism allows such a thing as a key text) The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, was itself ...
... postmodernism — a trend whose termination, as Jencks reported in the introduction to the sixth edition of his key text (insofar as postmodernism allows such a thing as a key text) The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, was itself ...
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... postmodern Portland Building showing it suffering the same fate as the Pruitt-Igoe. To the champion of postmodernism, such an announcement was, of course, premature — even evidence of its success: 'Now that Post- Modern architecture has ...
... postmodern Portland Building showing it suffering the same fate as the Pruitt-Igoe. To the champion of postmodernism, such an announcement was, of course, premature — even evidence of its success: 'Now that Post- Modern architecture has ...
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