Aesthetics of the Virtual

Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Aristotle's Physics between natural and artificial beings-they are both. They are beings that are simultaneously events; they are images that are at once internal and external; they are ontological hybrids that exist only in the interaction between logical-computational text and human bodies endowed with technological prostheses. Pursuing this line of thought, Diodato reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts such as mimesis, representation, the relation between illusion and reality, the nature of images and imagination, and the theory of sensory knowledge.Additional ISBNs1438444354, 1438444362, 9781438444352, 9781438444369Aesthetics of the Virtual is written by Roberto Diodato and published by Suny Press. ISBNs for Aesthetics of the Virtual are 9781438444376, 1438444370 and the print ISBNs are 9781438444352, 1438444354. Additional ISBNs include 1438444354, 1438444362, 9781438444352, 9781438444369.