Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.
Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Aristotle’s Physics between natural and artificial beings-they are both. They are beings that are simultaneously events; they are images that are at once internal and external; they are ontological hybrids that exist only in the interaction between logical-computational text and human bodies endowed with technological prostheses. Pursuing this line of thought, Diodato reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts such as mimesis, representation, the relation between illusion and reality, the nature of images and imagination, and the theory of sensory knowledge.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by John Protevi
Introduction
1. Aesthetics of the Virtual Body
2. My Body in the Virtual Environment
3. Forms of Expression
4. Towards the Image
5. Metaphors of the Virtual
6. The Concept of the Virtual
7. The Virtual Actor-Spectator
8. For an Aesthetics of the Hypertext
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Elvira Roncalli) of Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.
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