We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on...
The Term "Virtuality" in the Writings of Jean Baudrillard and Vilém Flusser
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presentation
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other, the / philosophy / postmodernism / reality / theory / virtual reality
Creation Date:
1997-03-16
Language:
German
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Centered around the term "virtuality" and its various usages, this essay would like to elucidate the theoretical approaches of two so-called "postmodern" philosophers: Jean Baudrillard and Vilém Flusser. Proceeding from Baudrillard's Perfect Crime, the "assassination of reality and the destruction of illusion," this reality is questioned once more.
If Flusser understands reality as a special case of the virtual "all reality is virtual" and as new, as yet unrealised worlds arise from virtuality then the real disappears in Baudrillard's scenario of the virtual and simulacra, owing to the exaggeration of itself and to the perfection of its reproduction and with it, any sort of illusion. (...) (T.K.)
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Original Title (English):
We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on...
Original Subtitle:
The Term "Virtuality" in the Writings of Jean Baudrillard and Vilém Flusser
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok, Törley-terem / Kunsthalle, Törley Hall
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