Published: 2017-06-30

Dwelling in Virtual Worlds

Michał Kłosiński

Abstract

The article explores the paradox of simultaneous coexistence in two worlds. It raises questions concerning Martin Heidegger’s notion of dwelling understood as constructing, building and managing both virtual and real spaces. The main thesis of the article is that it is impossible to reconcile the world of being with the virtual presence in the world of video games arising from human finitude: being toward death. The article also attempts at answering the question about the manner in which (in the framework of virtual dwelling) the narrative identity is constructed in games and about the role of imagination in media theatrics of game players’ activities. 

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Kłosiński, M. (2017). Dwelling in Virtual Worlds. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 9(1), 69–88. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8712

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)
Published: 2017-06-30


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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