Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008.
Original scientific paper
Virtuality and Materiality: Conjunction or Dichotomy? Conscience and Consciousness in View of Subject-Object-Medium Relations
Marina Biti
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Philosophy, Croatia
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.
Keywords
Virtuality; materiality; dichotomy; binary opposition; mediated / metaphorical opposition; highlighting and hiding; body; medium; pre-mediation; mediation; remediation
Hrčak ID:
27862
URI
Publication date:
24.7.2008.
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