Virtuality and Materiality: Conjunction or Dichotomy? Cover Image

Virtualnost i materijalnost - sprega ili dihotomija?
Virtuality and Materiality: Conjunction or Dichotomy?

Author(s): Marina Biti
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: virtuality; materiality; dichotomy; binary opposition; mediated / metaphorical opposition; highlighting and hiding; body; medium; pre-mediation; mediation; remediation

Summary/Abstract: The direct interest of this study is to evaluate relations between material and virtual phenomena weighed against the linguistic dichotomy which suggests these terms to be mutually excluding opposites. From such a point of view, the processing of language at the levels of pre-mediation (body), mediation (language) and remediation (the restructuring of the linguistic code under the influence of other media) is being discussed. Special focus is on forms and modes of textualization of language, reflecting both the virtual and the material sides of the medium, which is shown through examples ranging from everyday use of language to the literary one. The adopted perspective is cognitive, aiming to unveil the correlation between the virtual and the material at all levels of the cognitive process.

  • Issue Year: 28/2008
  • Issue No: 02/110
  • Page Range: 303-331
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Croatian
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