Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Utopia, Ideology, and Philosophy

   • Henrique Jales Ribeiro

   Pages 1-20

3. Phenomenology and the Challenge of Virtuality

   • Daniel O’Shiel

   Pages 21-43

4. Personality, Dissociation and Organic-Psychic Latency in Pierre Janet’s Account of Hysterical Symptoms

   • Edmundo Balsemão Pires

   Pages 45-67

5. Sonic Virtuality, Environment, and Presence

   • Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard

   Pages 69-80

6. Imagination and Virtuality. On Susanne Langer’s Theory of Artistic Forms

   • Joaquim Braga

   Pages 81-93

7. The Virtual as Precondition for Artistic Creation

   • Michaela Ott

   Pages 95-109

8. The Virtuality of Cinema: Beyond the Documentary-Fiction Divide with Peter Watkins and Mark Rappaport

   • João Pedro Cachopo

   Pages 111-118

9. Digital Fabrication and Its Meanings for Photography and Film

   • Matthew Crippen

   Pages 119-131

10. The Reality of the Virtual in Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism

    • Paulo M. Barroso

    Pages 133-144

11. The Scope of the Virtual in the Treatment of Melancholia

    • Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho

    Pages 145-168

12. The End of the Virtual? A Hermeneutical Approach to Digitality

    • Alberto Romele

    Pages 169-180

13. Virtuality Beyond Reproduction. Remarks on the History of Metaphysics

    • Simone Guidi

    Pages 181-210

This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the analysis of the concept of “the virtual” to areas of knowledge that, until today, have not been fully included in its philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with regard to the main premises of Western thought. 


Given its thematic scope, this book is intended not only for a philosophical audience, but also for all scientists who have turned to the humanities in search of answers to their questions. 

• virtuality
• Gilles Deleuze
• philosophy of science
• art and philosophy
• philosophy and technology
• psychic systems
• sonic virtuality
• virtuality of cinema
• digital fabrication
• virtual hermeneutics

• Departamento de Filosofia, Comunicação e Informação, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Joaquim Braga

Joaquim Braga is FCT-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of University of Coimbra, and member of the Research Unit "Institute for Philosophical Studies". He is graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, he finished his PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis based on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. His current fields of research cover Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and Modern Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. His works include, among others, Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis – Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (with Christian Möckel, Berlin, 2013), Símbolo e Cultura (Coimbra, 2014), Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (with Edmundo Balsemão Pires, New York/London, 2015).

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