[NetBehaviour] Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

[Alan Sondheim]

Unfortunately here it's prohibitively expensive - I think 54 usd -

- Alan

On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, marc garrett wrote:

> Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of 
> World
>
> Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche (eds): Real Virtuality: About the 
> Destruction and Multiplication of World (with a Preface by Gerd Stern), 
> Transcript Bielefeld, Germany sold internationally by Columbia University 
> Press, New York.
>
> Real Virtuality explores the boundaries of how we understand space, reality 
> and virtual worlds.
>
> Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as 
> we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically 
> assisted hybridization of both space and self, the ?old? world is becoming 
> virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the 
> first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not 
> only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms 
> of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an 
> assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.
>
> Real Virtuality is an anthology with contributions by Martin Rieser, Randolph 
> Langenbach, Gerd Stern amongst many other professionals from various 
> sciences, humanities and the arts.
> The book is available through Columbia University Press, Transcript Verlag 
> and Amazon as paperback and the PDF version is on its way. Excerpts are 
> available from the publisher's website.
>
> http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
> http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
> http://www.amazon.com/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083
> http://www.amazon.de/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083 
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