Real virtuality : about the destruction andmultiplication of world / Ulrich Gehmann, Martin Reiche, editors ; with a preface by Gerd Stern ; contributors Kristoffer Aberg [and twenty one others] : abo

Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridisation of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridisation of both space and self, the "old" world is becoming virtualised and functionalised 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.