Publication

2007-07-30 - Parlor Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101602350221
  • ISBN-139781602350229
  • LibraryThing5491452
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007026553
  • OCLC Control Number154308847
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781602350229
  • Open LibraryOL12554483M

Classifications

  • LCCP96.T42 R445 2007

Description

"In The Two Virtuals, Alex Reid shows that to understand the relationship between our traditional, humanistic realm of thought, subjectivity, and writing and the emerging virtual space of networked media, we need to recognize the common material space they share. The book investigates this shared space through a study of two, related conceptions of the virtual. The first virtual is quite familiar; it is the virtual reality produced by modern computing and networks. The second, less familiar, virtual comes from philosophy. It lies in the periphery of more familiar postmodern concepts, such as deconstruction, the rhizome, and simulation. In drawing the connection between the two virtuals of philosophy and networked media, Reid draws upon research in computers and writing, rhetoric and composition, new media studies, postmodern and critical theory, psychology, economics, anthropology, and robotics."--Publisher's website.

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