{"product_id":"9783030677831","title":"Image, Art and Virtuality: Towards an Aesthetics of Relation","description":"\u003ch1\u003eImage, Art and Virtuality: Towards an Aesthetics of Relation\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDiodato, Roberto\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it shows that the system can be understood as a relational structure, and that relations can be assessed within themselves, with no need to transform relations in elements. “Relations” are understood in contrast to “relational property”: without a relation there is no identity, therefore no existence. What allows us to do that without hypostatizing the relation, and without immediately taking it simply as a causal relation, can be better grasped, possibly, in reference to a few entities that make best display of their systemic nature, for example images, works of art, and virtual bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how virtual bodies are ontological hybrids representing a type of entity that has never appeared in the world before. This entity becomes a phenomenon in interactivity and evades the dichotomy between “external” and “internal”; it is neither a cognitive product of theconsciousness, nor an image of the mind. The user is well aware of experiencing an\u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003ereality, also in the sense of a paradoxical reduplication of perceptual synthesis. The virtual body-environment is therefore simultaneously external and internal, with virtual bodies-environments to be seen as artificial windows to an intermediary world. In this intermediary world, the space itself is the result of interactivity; the world takes place in the sense or feeling of immersion experienced by the user; and the body, perceived as “other”, takes upon itself the sense of its reality, of its effectiveness, as an imaginary and pathic incision, as a production of desire and emotion, to the point that the feeling of reality conveyed by a virtual environment will rely significantly on how this environment produces emotions in the users.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-03-02\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030677831\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-67784-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 94\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Editrice Morcelliana srl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47531161780364,"sku":"9783030677831","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030677831.jpg?v=1776050180","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030677831","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}