Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of virtuality. The respective chapters share new insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with regard to the main premises of Western thought.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-19
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt341 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNumanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
Antal sidor210
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030247539

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Joaquim Braga is FCT-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of University of Coimbra, and member of the Research Unit "Institute for Philosophical Studies". He is graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, he finished his PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis based on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. His current fields of research cover Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and Modern Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. His works include, among others, Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis – Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (with Christian Möckel, Berlin, 2013), Símbolo e Cultura (Coimbra, 2014), Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (with Edmundo Balsemão Pires, New York/London, 2015).

Chapter 1. Virtuality Beyond Reproduction Ontological Remarks.- Chapter 2. Phenomenology and the Challenge of Virtuality.- Chapter 3. Personality, Dissociation and Organic-Psychic Latency in Pierre Janet’s Account of Hysterical Symptoms.- Chapter 4. Sonic Virtuality, Environment, and Presence.- Chapter 5. Imagination and Virtuality On Susanne Langer’s Theory of Artistic Forms.- Chapter 6. The Virtual as Precondition for Artistic Creation.- Chapter 7. The Virtuality of Cinema: Beyond the Documentary-Fiction Divide with Peter Watkins and Mark Rappaport.- Chapter 8. Digital Fabrication and its Meanings for Photography and Film.- Chapter 9. The Reality of the Virtual in Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism.- Chapter 10. The Scope of the Virtual in the Treatment of Melancholia.- Chapter 11. The End of the Virtual? A Hermeneutical Approach to Digitality.- Chapter 12. Utopia, Ideology, and Philosophy.