{"product_id":"virtual-reality-the-last-human-narrative-9789042021099","title":"Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an “original event” to a virtual “narrative”. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream’s symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a “gene code”. Discourses on “globalization” let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called “virtual”. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210899317079,"sku":"9789042021099","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virtual-reality-the-last-human-narrative-9789042021099","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}