Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?

Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an "e;original event"e; to a virtual "e;narrative"e;. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream's symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a "e;gene code"e;. Discourses on "e;globalization"e; let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called "e;virtual"e;. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.