The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology : Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age /: Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel O'Shiel.
• Authors: O'Shiel, Daniel
• Contents: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PERCEPTION, IMAGE AND THE CHALLENGE OF VIRTUALITY1. Husserl1.1. Husserl's Perception 1.2. Presentation, Presentification and Phantasy 1.3. The Problem of Image-Consciousness2. Fink 2.1. Fink's 'Presentification and Image' 2.2. Presentation, Depresentation and the Types of Presentification2.3. Image-Consciousness, Again 3. Sartre3.1. Perception and the Imaginary 3.1.1. Experiencing and Evoking Absence: Perception, Imagination and the Analogon 3.1.2. Sartre's Imaginary: Between Perception and Concept 3.1.3. An Ambiguity in Sartre's Conclusion?3.2. Sartre's Answer for Image-Consciousness ..3.3. Recapitulation and Discussion4. The Challenge of Virtuality 4.1. Heidegger and Our Forked Being 4.2. Bergson and Deleuze 4.3. Perception and Image: a Difference in Kind or Degree?4.4. Real Virtualities: Self, World, Others and Values PART II. IRREAL VIRTUALITY: THE CASE OF VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY 5. Social Media 5.1. The Significance and Influence of Social Media 5.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Social Media 5.3. Breeur's Challenge: A Possibility for Real Engagement On or Through Social Media?6. Online Gaming 6.1. Games Are Not (Straightforward) Perceptions 6.2. The Online Gaming Experience 6.3. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Games6.4. Reality, Irreality, Superreality and Addiction7. VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.1. A Summary of VR, AR and MR Technologies7.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.3. 'Pure' MR and the Case of Holograms 8. Considerations and Consequences 8.1. Virtual Technology: Its Current Status and Scope 8.2. Blurrings, Inversions and Collapses? Current Trends and Future PossibilitiesConclusion BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: Impact of science & technology on society; Virtual reality; Philosophy -- Movements -- Phenomenology; Computers -- Virtual Worlds; Technology & Engineering -- Social Aspects; Phenomenology & Existentialism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350245525; 1350245526
• Related ISBNs: 9781350245501
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