The Two Virtuals
Subtitle: New Media and Composition
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781602350229
Subjects: Multimedia; Virtual reality; Composition & Creative Writing - General; Interactive & Multimedia; Media Studies; Computers / Interactive Media; Computers : Virtual Reality; Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing; Sociology
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.