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

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Perhaps but only to a limited extent - first, because VR always has a
concrete structure/protocols - WYSIWYG - and second, because there are
always hidden structures; the viewpoint is always decided, always a
preferential one.

Alan


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, saul ostrow wrote:

> 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
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