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•5 reviews since Nov 20, 2006
postmodern, philosophy, cognitive-science
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Klassy discovered 22 months ago
NAJMEH KHALILI MAHANIImagine a naïve scenario: a scopophilic generation has accomplished perfection in the creation of virtual realities to such an extent that anyone can create a narcissistic version of world, ego and identity, and accelerate in pleasure and desire in ways that are unimaginable or impossible in the real world. This world is also "hermetically sealed": it unwinds magically; but instead of being in a passive relationship with cinema, the spectator of the virtual reality world is himself a part of this circular voyeuristic fantasy, creator and cyborg at the same time. The identity in this world will be totally dissolved along the lines of imagination, indulgence of visual illusions and egotistic unification with a technologically (digitally) enhanced illusion of perfection. The global village of image in which we live electronically is a hologram of cinema perpetuated in many dimensions of culture and technology, postmodern and multiplanar. The digital image, whether projected in a movie theater, interacted with on a computer, or communicated on wireless cameras, modulates the fundamental processes of our pleasure and identification in the same way that phantasmagoria of the eighteenth century did. But the intensity of experience is different, as is the nature of the illusion of freedom, albeit at the expense of a greater disconnect from reality.
- umutcano rated 21 months ago
- Thanks to my friend Klassy! From the page: "A novel, poem, picture, or musical work are individuals, that is, beings in which the expression is indistinguishable from the thing expressed, their meaning accessible only through direct contact, being radiated with no change of their temporal or spatial situation. It is in this sense that our body is comparable to a work of art. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p.15 .)"
- pixiequix rated 21 months ago
- "However, the role of science in creation of myths that form, inform or deform social structures cannot be overlooked. The scientific hypotheses painstakingly examined within the controlled environment of a laboratory make it to the sphere of public interest and cult aspirations long before concrete results do. Furthermore, shedding scientific light on the nature of human emotion, consciousness, cognition-the building blocks of abstract thought, culture and ideology-illuminates a discursive path in an era when the forces of culture and economy march toward a ubiquitous globalization. Uniting mind-that envisions ideology-with body-which sustains in its corporeal substance the abstract value system of ideology-brings cultures and communities to a level field of communication where dialogue can happen. This is precisely why the legions of science and humanities need to re-legion."
- runtime rated 22 months ago
- From the page: "A novel, poem, picture, or musical work are individuals, that is, beings in which the expression is indistinguishable from the thing expressed, their meaning accessible only through direct contact, being radiated with no change of their temporal or spatial situation. It is in this sense that our body is comparable to a work of art. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p.15 .)"
- chperret rated 22 months ago
- From the page: "Imagine a naïve scenario: a scopophilic generation has accomplished perfection in the creation of virtual realities to such an extent that anyone can create a narcissistic version of world, ego and identity, and accelerate in pleasure and desire in ways that are unimaginable or impossible in the real world. This world is also Chermetically sealed: it unwinds magically; but instead of being in a passive relationship with cinema, the spectator of the virtual reality world is himself a part of this circular voyeuristic fantasy, creator and cyborg at the same time. The identity in this world will be totally dissolved along the lines of imagination, indulgence of visual illusions and egotistic unification with a technologically (digitally) enhanced illusion of perfection. The global village of image in which we live electronically is a hologram of cinema perpetuated in many dimensions of culture and technology, postmodern and multiplanar."
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