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Title The virtual embodied : presence/practice/technology / edited by John Wood
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Shuffle / Margot Leigh Butler -- Preface: curvatures in space-time-truth / John Wood -- Pt. 1. Embodied knowledge and virtual space. 1. Embodied knowledge and virtual space: gender, nature and history / Victor Jeleniewski Seidler. 2. The digital unconscious / John Monk. 3. Physical, psychological and virtual realities / Max Velmans -- Pt. 2. Nature and virtue. 4. Nature = x: notes on Spinozist ethics / Andy Goffey. 5. Embodying virtue: a buddhist perspective on virtual reality / Damien Keown. 6. Redesigning the present / John Wood -- Pt. 3. Embodying truth. 7. Hubble telescope: the artist in the eye of the storm / Gustav Metzger. 8. A more convivial perspective system for artists / Peter Cresswell. 9. Ancient oaks: a one-act play / Garth Rennie and Ronald Fraser-Munro. 10. Culture, technology and subjectivity: an 'ethical' analysis / Lisa M. Blackman -- Pt. 4. When becoming meets becoming. 11. The dream garden: notes on a virtual idyll / Robert Wells
12. The 'return-beat': 'curved perceptions' in music and dance / Olu Taiwo. 13. 'Peak practices': the production and regulation of ecstatic bodies / Maria Pini -- Pt. 5. Between saying and showing. 14. [Sait] / Claudia Wegener. 15. + and [actual symbol not reproducible] / Margo Leigh Butler. 16. PDF: the digital hostess / Rachel Baker. 17. Messages from Sir Arthur and the Rev. Bill / Ronald Fraser-Munro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human body (Philosophy)
Philosophy.
Virtual reality.
Author Wood, John, 1945-
LC no. 97038905
ISBN 0415140056 paperback alkaline paper
0415160251 hardcover alkaline paper
041516026X paperback alkaline paper