Today we looked at virtual reality, cyberspace and i guess a link between the two? maybe? i must admit i was a little confused at times, so i will try and summarise as best i can :)
we started the lecture watching a you tube clip on internet security in the us. i found this a total invasion and attempt to control free speech in what is portrayed as a 'democratic free society'!! i can only hope that australia does not do this, but im sure it probably does!!
we then moved on to virtual rationality, this involved briefly discussing some different theorists, including Debord (who was mainly about reality tv), baudrillard (basically saying that everything is a clone, nothing exists in its original form anymore), gibson (who was one of the first to term 'cyberspace', prior to the www) and deleuze and guattari which led us into a philosophical debate (or conversation :) and was trying to define the difference between the actual and real worlds. i found this really interesting, and i would consider the reading that adam suggested would follow along this topic, but maybe after my degree is finished and i have the time and mind power to read for pleasure again :)
we then watched a documentary on second life, this raised some really interesting points, such as tax, laws, control, ownership. . . . . this list was endless with the questions it raised that will take time to answer. i had never looked at anything like this before and i found it fascinating!! the fact that people spend real money on things that aren't 'real' (but then i guess you could argue what is real???), i think i will be thinking about this for a few days (if not longer :)
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hi^^ can i add ur blog addie on my blog? the virtual field trip was so fun today haha :)
The best way to think about the "real" vs the "actual" is to think of the world we live in as the "actual". As time passes, things happen and those things can come from a pool of things... Possible or potential things.
The Real, Deleuze would suggest, is made up of ideal forms of things.
So these are perfect forms of things, in a sense echoing what Plato called the Essences of the world, the "thing-ness of things".
So we can't interact with Real things, in this sense, because Real things are always in a state of change (caused by lots of outside forces, like time) and through that process of changing, of evolution, they are no longer the "pure" forms that they once were.
So we experience Actual things...
If that makes some more sense?
Probably not.. heh, but it's fun thinking about it :)
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