WHY THE TALK IS INSPIRING?

There are legitimate reasons for concern about human immersion in digital environments, the artificial character of virtual reality, and the unauthentic presence and relationships that result. However, these concerns often lead to a juxtaposition of virtual reality as fake and actual reality as real. Proceeding from the work of philosopher Henri Bergson, this talk will argue that this opposition is incorrect and gives us a distorted understanding of what is virtual and what is real.


Recommended book

MATIÈRE ET MÉMOIRE

Henri Bergson

A book that welcomes us back to total materiality and then re-creates a new immaterial world seemingly from scratch. A strangely sobering and at the same time intoxicating book.