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"Virtuality, Philosophy, Architecture"

ABSTRACT
The author contrasts a current representationalist definition of virtuality, according to which this concept "represents" the effects of communication and informational technology on our way of knowing and building the world, with an alternative concept according to which virtuality describes a constitutive component of experience, and, as such, resists all reduction to physical processes as well as quantification and formalization.
The author suggests rethinking virtuality in terms of the Nietzschean notion of perspectivism, which amounts to the assumption that experience contains a virtual dimension. The move calls into question a whole range of philosophical categorizations and architectural presuppositions, first and foremost the Cartesian notion of space. A new concept of virtual space emerges, which is articulated in Nietzschean as well as in Bergsonian terms.

Giovanna Borradori
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College

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