Research Catalog

Title

Aesthetics of the Virtual / Roberto Diodato ; Translated by Justin L. Harmon ; Revised and Edited by Silvia Benso ; Foreword by John Protevi.

Author

Diodato, Roberto

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors

Benso, Silvia.

Description

x, 161 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies. Arguing that the virtual body is something newnamely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the worldRoberto 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 Aristotles Physics between natural and artificial beingsthey 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.

Series Statement

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Uniform Title

• Estetica del virtualel. English
• Project Muse UPCC books
• SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.

Alternative Title

Estetica del virtualel.

Subject

• Art and technology
• Virtual reality > Philosophy
• Virtual reality in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781438444352 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1438444354 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011052052

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library