The digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we
relate to our perceptions and images. Daniel O'Shiel provides the
first comprehensive phenomenology of virtual technology in order to
show how the previously well-established experiential lines and
structures between three basic categories of phenomenal experience
– our everyday perceptions of reality; our everyday fantasies of
irreality; and our everyday engagements with external images, not
least digital ones – are becoming blurred, inverted or are even
collapsing in a new era where a specific type of virtuality is
coming to the fore. O’Shiel examines in depth just what this
means for the phenomenology behind it, as well as the concrete
practical consequences going forward. The work is divided into two
main parts. In the first O’Shiel fully investigates the
phenomenological natures of perception and imagination through
close textual analyses of the relevant works by Edmund Husserl,
Eugen Fink and Jean-Paul Sartre. In each phenomenologist perception
and imagination are ultimately seen as different in kind, although
the dividing line differs, especially with reference to a middle
category of ‘image-consciousness’ (Bildbewusstsein). This first
part argues for basic phenomenological differences between
perceptions; physical and external images; and more mental imagery,
while also allowing for a more general gradation between them. The
second part then applies these theoretical findings to some of the
most influential ‘virtual technologies’ today – social media;
online gaming; and some virtual, augmented and mixed reality
technologies – in order to show how previously clear categories
of real and irreal, present and absent, genuine and fake, and even
true and false, are becoming less so.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 2024 |
| Authors: |
Daniel O'Shiel
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-24554-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-24554-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781350245549 |
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