Making sense of reality :
DeNora, Tia
Making sense of reality : culture and perception in everyday life / Tia DeNora - xxvi, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.
9781446202005
2014932551
Perception
Philosophy
Reality
Culture
306 DE MA
Making sense of reality : culture and perception in everyday life / Tia DeNora - xxvi, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.
9781446202005
2014932551
Perception
Philosophy
Reality
Culture
306 DE MA