{"product_id":"image-art-and-virtuality-towards-an-aesthetics-of-relation-9783030677862","title":"Image, Art and Virtuality: Towards an Aesthetics of Relation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roberto Diodato\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 the consciousness, nor an image of the mind. The user is well aware of experiencing an\u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e reality, 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","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276052848791,"sku":"9783030677862","price":6243.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030677862.webp?v=1769284652","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/image-art-and-virtuality-towards-an-aesthetics-of-relation-9783030677862","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}