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 Libération 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 ...
... Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Libération 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 ...
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... Baudrillard's argument , echoed throughout the radical French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ' war depicted in those images . It was a postmodern war , a war where there is no reality , just , in Baudrillard's ...
... Baudrillard's argument , echoed throughout the radical French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ' war depicted in those images . It was a postmodern war , a war where there is no reality , just , in Baudrillard's ...
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... Baudrillard , reality , like the Gulf War , is a simulacrum , a perfect copy that has no original . Baudrillard began his classic essay on postmodernity , ' Simulacra and simulations ' with a quote from Ecclesiastes : " The simulacrum ...
... Baudrillard , reality , like the Gulf War , is a simulacrum , a perfect copy that has no original . Baudrillard began his classic essay on postmodernity , ' Simulacra and simulations ' with a quote from Ecclesiastes : " The simulacrum ...
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