Aesthetics of the Virtual

by Diodato, Roberto; Harmon, Justin L.; Benso, Silvia

• ISBN13: 9781438444352
• ISBN10: 1438444354
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781438444376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.

Author Biography

Roberto Diodato is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. Justin L. Harmon is a teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Kentucky. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Aesthetics of the Virtual Body	p. 1
My Body in the Virtual Environment	p. 15
Forms of Expression	p. 35
Toward the Image	p. 53
Metaphors of the Virtual	p. 69
The Concepts of the Virtual	p. 91
The Virtual Actor-Spectator	p. 101
For an Aesthetics of the Hypertext	p. 111
Notes	p. 119
Bibliography	p. 147
Index	p. 157
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