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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... modernist message , arguing that the street be turned into a ' machine for traffic ' , just as he argued that the ... modernism that Le Corbusier inspired was that form should follow function . In other words , style was nothing ...
... modernist message , arguing that the street be turned into a ' machine for traffic ' , just as he argued that the ... modernism that Le Corbusier inspired was that form should follow function . In other words , style was nothing ...
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... Modernist writers like James Joyce , as modernist architects like Le Corbusier , heroically denied themselves their traditional authorial role , instead trying to hide themselves behind ' narratorless ' texts and structures yielded by ...
... Modernist writers like James Joyce , as modernist architects like Le Corbusier , heroically denied themselves their traditional authorial role , instead trying to hide themselves behind ' narratorless ' texts and structures yielded by ...
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... modernist stalwarts marked the event with doctored photographs of Michael Graves's postmodern Portland Building showing it suffering the same fate as the Pruitt - Igoe . To the champion of postmodernism , such an announcement was , of ...
... modernist stalwarts marked the event with doctored photographs of Michael Graves's postmodern Portland Building showing it suffering the same fate as the Pruitt - Igoe . To the champion of postmodernism , such an announcement was , of ...
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