TY - BOOK AU - Gehmann,Ulrich AU - Reiche,Martin AU - Stern,Gerd TI - Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World T2 - Edition Kulturwissenschaft SN - 9783837626087 AV - HM851.R4323 2014 U1 - 303.48/34 PY - 2014///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Virtual reality KW - Social aspects KW - Changes of the Self KW - Cultural Studies KW - Cultural Theory KW - Culture KW - Functionalization KW - Media Studies KW - Media Theory KW - Media KW - Mixed Realities KW - Space KW - World-Creations KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839426081 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839426081/original ER -