Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?

Author: 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 Pages: 242 pp.
human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is
Language: English
possible to reconcile both.
Publisher: Brill

Series:
Critical Posthumanisms,
Volume: 1
E-Book (PDF)
Publication: 14 Jul 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30230-3
USD $117.00

Hardback
Publication: 17 Jul 2015
ISBN: 978-90-420-2109-9
USD $117.00

Subjects
Literature and Cultural
Studies
Postmodernism
Philosophy
19th & 20th Century
Philosophy
Social & Political
Philosophy
Biographical Note

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany in 1964, studied

philosophy in Paris, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is
now Associate Professor of philosophy at the Gulf University for Science
and Technology in Kuwait.

Readership

Scholars and graduate students in Cultural Studies, Aesthetics,

Philosophy, Japanese Studies. As the book is interdisciplinary, people
from other elds will be attracted.

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