КА ПРОШИРЕНОЈ РЕАЛНОСТИ: ДИЈАЛЕКТИКА ФИЗИЧКОГ И ВИРТУЕЛНОГ ПРОСТОРА
TOWARDS AUGMENTED REALITY: THE DIALECTICS OF PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACE

Summary/Abstract: Spaces generated by new media technologies, no matter how abstract they may be, represent a qualitatively new form of the media environment. Moreover, they are integrated into everyday life in a way that they have become the constituents of social reality. Based on dualistic Cartesian understanding of real and virtual space, virtuality still carries a connotation of “other” world, which is ontologically and phenomenologically different from “reality”. However, virtuality as a characteristic of new media technologies should neither be equated with illusion, deception or fiction nor set in opposition to reality, given that it embodies real interactions. Instead, we could say that there are different types or levels of reality and that the virtual exists as reality qualitatively different from that of physical reality. Today, when every place on the planet, as well as social, political, and cultural activities, have their digital manifestations, can we still talk about virtual space as an isolated phenomenon?

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