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By Melanie Chan

ISBN-10: 1441175318

ISBN-13: 9781441175311

ISBN-10: 1501308645

ISBN-13: 9781501308642

the belief of digital realities has a protracted and intricate historic trajectory, spanning from Plato's inspiration of the cave and the simulacrum, to creative kinds equivalent to Trompe L'oeil, and extra lately advancements in 3D movie, tv and gaming. despite the fact that, this booklet pays specific consciousness to the time among the Nineteen Eighties to the Nineteen Nineties whilst digital truth and our on-line world have been represented, rather in fiction, as a wondrous expertise that enabled transcendence from the constraints of actual embodiment. the aim of this serious old research of representations of digital fact is to check how they could deny, repress or disregard embodied event. in particular, the writer will contend that embodiment is a basic element of immersion in digital truth, instead of whatever that is to be transcended. during this means, the e-book goals to problem distorted rules approximately transcendence and productively give a contribution to debates approximately embodiment and technology.

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