Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places

List of contents

Foreword
Jeff Malpas
Introduction
Erik Champion
1. The Inconspicuous Familiarity of Landscape
Ted Relph
2. Landscape Archaeology in Skyrim VR
Andrew Reinhard
3. The Efficacy of Phenomenology for Investigating Place with Locative Media
Leighton Evans
4. Postphenomenology and "Places"
Don Ihde
5. Virtual Place and Virtualized Place
Bruce Janz
6. Transactions in virtual places: Sharing and excess in blockchain worlds
Richard Coyne
7. The Kyoto School Philosophy on Place: Nishida and Ueda-John
W.M. Krummel
8. Phenomenology of Place and Space in our Epoch: Thinking along Heideggerian Pathways
Nader El-Bizri
9. Norberg-Schulz: Culture, Presence and a Sense of Virtual Place
Erik Champion
10. Heidegger’s Building Dwelling Thinking in terms of Minecraft
Tobias Holischka
11. Cézanne, Merleau-Ponty, and Questions for Augmented Reality
Patricia Locke
12. The Place of Others: Merleau-Ponty and the Interpersonal Origins of Adult Experience
Susan Bredlau
13. "The Place was not a Place": A Critical Phenomenology of Forced Displacement
Neil Vallelly
14. Virtual Dark Tourism in The Town of Light
Florence Smith Nicholls

About the author

Erik Champion is Professor of Cultural Visualisation in the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Australia. He is the author of Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Visual Heritage (2015) and Playing with the Past (2011).

Summary

This collection explores the history and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of virtual places. These essays from philosophers, cultural geographers, designers, architects, and archaeologists advance the connection between phenomenology and the study of virtual place.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Champion, Erik Malcolm Champion, Erik Malcolm (Curtin University Champion
• Assisted by: Erik Champion (Editor), Erik Malcolm Champion (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138094079
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09407-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Archaeological Theory