Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta

In my paper, I establish an Ingardenian phenomenological ontology of “virtualized ficta”, i.e., fictional entities introduced to virtual gaming. The first Section of my paper provides an ontology of virtualized ficta, focusing primarily on their ‘‘existential moments’’. But in order to have a firm g...

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Main Author: Hicham Jakha
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Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2024-04-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/estetica/15970
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description In my paper, I establish an Ingardenian phenomenological ontology of “virtualized ficta”, i.e., fictional entities introduced to virtual gaming. The first Section of my paper provides an ontology of virtualized ficta, focusing primarily on their ‘‘existential moments’’. But in order to have a firm grasp of the ontological aspects grounding the virtual work, it’s important to engage its strata. This is what I attempt to do in Section 1.2. Virtualized ficta’s intentional dependencies are strongly manifest in what I call the ‘‘strata of the virtual work’’. That is, I repurpose Ingarden’s strata of the literary work, the picture, and the film to showcase that virtualized ficta, from the bottom up (i.e., from their pure ontology to aesthetics) are purely intentional entities. In short, I argue for a purely intentional account of virtualized ficta as ficta-made-virtualia, whose ontological status is determined by the creative acts of game developers and gamers.
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title Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta
title_full Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta
title_fullStr Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta
title_full_unstemmed Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta
title_short Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta
title_sort ficta and virtuality an ingardenian ontology of virtualized ficta
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Roman Ingarden
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