Re: [-empyre-] the symbolic and the real

[saul ostrow <so5@nyu.edu>]

can we truly imagine something that has no corresponding physical
attributes in the material world  -- isn't VR a bit like building a
unicorn -- consequently it would fall under the Lacanian notion of the
imagined or Benjamin's notion  of the phantasmagoria -- in other words 
it is a world of nothing but representation and as such it is always
already symbolic -- the  real  of it is  the experience of it, not  the
constructed illusions that are  experienced -- in this the participant
makes the imagined real