VIRTUAL
THE ACTUAL AND THE VIRTUAL
In contemporary times, we associate virtual space with what happens on the screens of computers, cell phones and tablets, however what is new is technology and not virtuality - virtuality is not an exclusive property of the internet.
Something that is still in a potential state, endowed with the strength to move to a different state, we say that it is in a virtual state, it is always open to transformations, to latent possibilities.
Therefore, it is not right to oppose the virtual to the real, in fact, the virtual is opposed to the actual. Furthermore, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze claims that there is no purely actual object. For him, everything current is surrounded by a fog of virtual images, that is, all multiplicity implies current and virtual elements.
THE CONCEPT OF VIRTUALIZATION
The philosopher Pierre Lévy works with the concept of virtual in the detachment of the here and now. When a person, a collectivity, an act, an information are virtualized, they become 'non-present', they become deterritorialized.
“Next, Lévy goes on to argue that virtualization increases the variability of spaces and temporalities. According to him, new means of communication establish diversified modalities of time and space.” [1]
This virtualization also reinvents the nomadic culture: it gives rise to a means of social interactions where relationships are reconfigured very quickly and where there is an intensification of mobility, without the mobility of the body. Our form of deterritorialization is no longer geographical, there is a contemporary multiplication of spaces and we jump from one network to another.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
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LEVY, Pierre. What is the virtual . São Paulo: Ed. 34, 1996.
DELEUZE, Gilles. The current and the virtual . “Dialogues” Magazine. 1996
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