Dawn of a New Feeling: The Neocontemplative Condition.by Milani, Federici New**

Name: Dawn of a New Feeling: The Neocontemplative Condition.by Milani, Federici New**
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

Dawn of a New FeelingThe Neocontemplative Condition\nAuthor(s): Raffaele Milani, Corrado Federici\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228010968, 978-0228010968\nSynopsis\nComputers have become omnipresent in recent decades, affecting all aspects of modern life and influencing creative pursuits in art, architecture, music, and film. One consequence of this seemingly irreversible trend is its effect on the perception of the aesthetic object, and indeed of nature itself.\n\nDawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating new and entertaining art forms, while contending that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and blunts the viewers capacity for feeling a genuine connection with a work of art. First describing how modernity and post-modernity are entangl.