Friday, 24 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Cosplay: dressing-up in a Virtual World
(BBC news: Tech Know Cosplay).
Talk about living out the narrative! This is what Jean Baudrillard and Elaine Graham call 'hyper-reality': Virtual worlds inspiring people to presents themselves in ways that transcend their real selves and become something different, a ‘hyper-real’ or post-human self.
Human life is enriched by taking up, or immersing ourselves within, the existential spaces - whether real or virtual - which we inhabit, or the narratives we read and experience. Cosplay, an assimilation of virtual reality into our humanity, promises offers meaning and pleasure and fun.
Are there spaces and narratives that offer an assimilation, for want of a better word, of theological realities into humanity that are enriching, meaningful, pleasurable and life-giving without the need to go beyond reality or what it means to be human?
Talk about living out the narrative! This is what Jean Baudrillard and Elaine Graham call 'hyper-reality': Virtual worlds inspiring people to presents themselves in ways that transcend their real selves and become something different, a ‘hyper-real’ or post-human self.
Human life is enriched by taking up, or immersing ourselves within, the existential spaces - whether real or virtual - which we inhabit, or the narratives we read and experience. Cosplay, an assimilation of virtual reality into our humanity, promises offers meaning and pleasure and fun.
Are there spaces and narratives that offer an assimilation, for want of a better word, of theological realities into humanity that are enriching, meaningful, pleasurable and life-giving without the need to go beyond reality or what it means to be human?
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