Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, human actions, observations and insights take place.
In The Virtual Embodied, many of the authors, artists, performers and designers apply their interdisciplinary passions to questions of embodied knowledge and virtual space. In doing so it chooses to acknowledge the limitations of the conventional linear book and uses them creatively to challenge existing genres of multi-media and networked consumerism.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 0 Curvatures in space-time-truth
• Part 1 Embodied Knowledge And Virtual Space
• 1 Embodied knowledge and virtual space: gender, nature and history
• 2 The Digital Unconscious
• 3 Physical, Psychological, & Virtual Realities
• Part 2 Nature And Virtue
• 4 Nature=X: Notes on Spinozist Ethics
• 5 Enbodying Virtue: A Buddhist perspective on VR
• 6 Re-designing the Present
• Part 3 Embodying Truth
• 7 Hubble Telescope: Artist in th Eye of the Storm
• 8 A more Convivial Perspective System for Artists
• 9 Ancient Oaks
• 10 Culture, Technology, & Sujectivity: An `Ethical' Analysis
• Part 4 When Becoming Meets Becoming
• 11 The Dream Garden
• Notes on Virtual Idyll
• 12 The `Return Beat': Curved Perceptions in Dance
• 13 'Peak Practices', the Production and regulation of ecstatic bodies
• Part 5 Between Saying And Showing
• 14 + Margot
• 15 (sait)
• 16 PD (copyright) TM: The Digital Hostess
• 17 Messages from Sir Arthur & the Rev. Bill
• Index