Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?

By Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an "original event" to a virtual "narrative". This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream's symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a "gene code". Discourses on "globalization" let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called "virtual". This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042021098
• ISBN13: 9789042021099
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.