[spectre] Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

[Martin Reiche]

Dear friends and colleagues,
with great pleasure I want to announce to you today the international
release of our newest book,

Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche (eds): Real Virtuality: About the
Destruction and Multiplication of World (with a Preface by Gerd Stern),
Transcript Bielefeld, Germany
sold internationally by Columbia University Press, New York.

Real Virtuality explores the boundaries of how we understand space, reality
and virtual worlds.

Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as
we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a
technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world
is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced
before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold
where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards
our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of
existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what
being human means.

Real Virtuality is an anthology with contributions by Martin Rieser,
Randolph Langenbach, Gerd Stern amongst many other professionals from
various sciences, humanities and the arts.
The book is available through Columbia University Press, Transcript Verlag
and Amazon as paperback and the PDF version is on its way. Excerpts are
available from the publisher's website.

http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083
http://www.amazon.de/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083

Best
Martin and Ulrich
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