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(0)Jörg Sternagel
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Als Mitte und Mittelndes befinden Medien sich in einem grundsätzlichen Dazwischen, das geeignet ist, falschen Gegensätzen zugunsten eines spannungsreichen Sowohl-als-auch zu entkommen. Aus kunst-, kultur- und medienphilosophischer Perspektive fragen die Beiträger*innen des Bandes nach den Erscheinungsweisen eines medialen Zwischenraumes. Wenn wir die Mitte nicht nur räumlich, sondern auch zeitlich denken - nämlich als Weg und Bewegung der Vermittlung...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to perform them or to play trial identity games with them? This volume addresses these questions from artistic and scholarly angles. Contributions on the making of »technical others« and philosophical reflections on artificial alterity are flanked by neuroscientific studies on different ways of perceiving living...