ISBN:
9781602352919
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Series Statement:
New Media Theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Digital media -- Philosophy
;
Digital media -- Technological innovations
;
Image (Philosophy)
;
Virtual reality in art
;
Aesthetics
Abstract:
A new experience of identity is emerging within the digital apparatus under the rubric of "avatar." This study develops "concept avatar" as an opportunity to invent a practice of citizenship native to the Internet that simulates the functionality of measure dramatized in the traditions of "descent" ("avatar") or "incarnation," including the original usage in the Bhagavad Gita, and the Western evolution of the virtue of prudence from the Ancient daimon, through genius and character, to the contemporary sinthome.
Abstract:
Front cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Frontispiece -- Preface -- Epigraph -- 1 Prudence -- 2 Concept -- 3 Joke -- 4 Descent -- 5 Moment -- 6 Memory -- 7 Measure -- 8 Enjoyment -- 9 Letter -- 10 Frog -- 11 Hegemony -- 12 Counsel -- 13 Wisdom -- Afterword: Class Portrait With Daimon (A Remix) -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author -- Back cover.
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