@book{2014:gehmann:real_virtu, title = {Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World}, year = {2014}, note = {Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.With a Preface by Gerd Stern.}, edition = {1}, publisher = {transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, series = {Edition Kulturwissenschaft}, volume = {37}, editor = {Gehmann, Ulrich and Reiche, Martin} }