Article:
Shattered embodiment: Cyberspace as Cartesian Project

dc.creatorMüller, Elke
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T14:01:37Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T14:01:37Z
dc.date.issued2002-11-10
dc.description.abstractIn the Western world, we are still proceeding from a Cartesian worldview. In this paper I will illustrate that this dualistic worldview is objectified in Virtual Reality technologies. In order to illustrate this, I will first explain the main ideas of Descartes’ Optics with respect to his vision on sense perception, space and the body. Secondly, I will compare the described topics of Descartes’ philosophy with the phenomenological critique and alternative of Merleau-Ponty. These elaborations will serve as a background for my illustration. I will distinguish three kinds of virtual spaces, of which the CAVE seems to arouse the strongest kind of Cartesian ruptures, which I will refer to as experiences of ‘shattered embodiment’.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17573
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18525
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeBerlin
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectvirtual realityen
dc.subjectembodimenten
dc.subjectphenomenologyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personRené Descartes
dc.subject.personMaurice Merleau-Ponty
dc.titleShattered embodiment: Cyberspace as Cartesian Projecten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-01-04T15:44:09
local.source.epage22
local.source.issue6
local.source.issueTitleNr. 26
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume4
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118524844
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118818619
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9191
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212639

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