Avatar Emergency
Author: Gregory L. Ulmer
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Published: 2012-08-15
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1602353425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new experience of identity is emerging within the digital apparatus under the rubric of “avatar.” This study develops “concept avatar” as an opportunity to invent a practice of citizenship native to the Internet that simulates the functionality of measure dramatized in the traditions of “descent” (“avatar”) or “incarnation,” including the original usage in the Bhagavad Gita, and the Western evolution of the virtue of prudence from the Ancient daimon, through genius and character, to the contemporary sinthome.