Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
$11.28 USD
by : Robert Markley
The recognition that that cyberspace is a fiction- a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine "really" exists- is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks. In this grounbreaking volume Robert Markley and his coauthors set out to discover why "cyberspace provokes often- rapturous rhetoric but resists critical analysis."
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