Comments on: Open Knowledge Projects Win at Ars Electronica http://grandtextauto.org/2004/05/22/open-knowledge-projects-win-at-ars-electronica/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sue http://grandtextauto.org/2004/05/22/open-knowledge-projects-win-at-ars-electronica/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 Sue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=333#comment-1334 I am greatly interested in how cyberspace allows us to do so many things, are we living in a more virtual world now? Or are we just confuse with the fine line between reality and virtual reality? The word ‘virtuality’ combines "the discrete terms virtual and reality into a singular concept – a semantic fusion that enacts the dissolution of difference between the world and its representation." (Prefiguring cyberculture: an intellectual history (2002). Edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Sydney: Power Institute, page 106). Do you guys think the internet have or have not dissolve the difference between the world and its representation? I am greatly interested in how cyberspace allows us to do so many things, are we living in a more virtual world now? Or are we just confuse with the fine line between reality and virtual reality?

The word ‘virtuality’ combines “the discrete terms virtual and reality into a singular concept – a semantic fusion that enacts the dissolution of difference between the world and its representation.” (Prefiguring cyberculture: an intellectual history (2002). Edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Sydney: Power Institute, page 106).

Do you guys think the internet have or have not dissolve the difference between the world and its representation?

]]> By: scott http://grandtextauto.org/2004/05/22/open-knowledge-projects-win-at-ars-electronica/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 scott Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=333#comment-1335 Sue -- This looks to me like an assignment you have in Jenny Weight's COM 2200 class. I'm guessing that, having done the reading for that class, you probably have a better answer to this question than we could give you. I personally think that the distinction between the world and its representations has always been suspect. Sue –

This looks to me like an assignment you have in Jenny Weight’s COM 2200 class. I’m guessing that, having done the reading for that class, you probably have a better answer to this question than we could give you. I personally think that the distinction between the world and its representations has always been suspect.

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