Victor J Krebs
Biographic Data
| ID | 462116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor J Krebs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor J |
| FAMILY NAME | Krebs |
| SIGNATURE | KREBS V J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6989-3095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural melancholy and moral perfectionism in Robles Godoy’s The Green Wall
The film’s depiction of a family seeking renewal in the jungle, only to be devastated by tragedy, stages an encounter with the limits of human mastery over nature, the fragility of social bonds, and the inevitability of grief. Read against the background of Latin America’s colonial legacy, Cavell’s Emersonian call to the ordinary provides a counterpoint to the region’s inherited scepticism and its persistent ‘cultural melancholy’, marked by the t…
Stanley Cavell in Caracas
We present here excerpts from seminars, interviews, and conversations with Stanley Cavell during the time of his visit to Caracas in 1998. This material comprises Cavell’s responses to questions raised at the seminar, extracts from an interview with Maria Elena Ramos and Victor Krebs, and a subsequent letter they received from Cavell in response to further questions. Krebs’ introduction to the collection sets the scene for Cavell’s visit and sket…
Digital Animism
With the advent of 'the virtual world,' we have naturally gauged the 'reality' of the virtual in terms of how close it comes to empirical experience. However, the common association of the virtual to simulation depends on a representational dualism that reduces it to a simulacrum of reality and prevents us from seeing its real import. Virtuality, rather than related to simulation, refers instead to potentiality. Far from being something that firs…
Human Virtuality and Digital Life
This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves. Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest instantiation of the phenomenon of the virtual, which is intrinsic to human being. It illuminates what is at stake in our understanding of the relationship between the…
The Power of Ghosts
Before we can assess the impact of the digital revolution on our conception of psychic work, the author argues, we need to understand how the new spatio-temporal coordinates instituted by the Digital Revolution demand a revisioning of our conceptions of objectivity, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. The melancholic dimension and the narcissistic regression involved in the virtual must, therefore, be reconceived if we are to recognize the trans…
Digital Animism
With the advent of 'the virtual world,' we have naturally gauged the 'reality' of the virtual in terms of how close it comes to empirical experience. However, the common association of the virtual to simulation depends on a representational dualism that reduces it to a simulacrum of reality and prevents us from seeing its real import. Virtuality, rather than related to simulation, refers instead to potentiality. Far from being something that firs…
Human Virtuality and Digital Life
This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves. Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest instantiation of the phenomenon of the virtual, which is intrinsic to human being. It illuminates what is at stake in our understanding of the relationship between the…
The Power of Ghosts
Before we can assess the impact of the digital revolution on our conception of psychic work, the author argues, we need to understand how the new spatio-temporal coordinates instituted by the Digital Revolution demand a revisioning of our conceptions of objectivity, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. The melancholic dimension and the narcissistic regression involved in the virtual must, therefore, be reconceived if we are to recognize the trans…
Human Virtuality and Digital Life
This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves. Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest instantiation of the phenomenon of the virtual, which is intrinsic to human being. It illuminates what is at stake in our understanding of the relationship between the…
Digital Animism
With the advent of 'the virtual world,' we have naturally gauged the 'reality' of the virtual in terms of how close it comes to empirical experience. However, the common association of the virtual to simulation depends on a representational dualism that reduces it to a simulacrum of reality and prevents us from seeing its real import. Virtuality, rather than related to simulation, refers instead to potentiality. Far from being something that firs…
Cultural melancholy and moral perfectionism in Robles Godoy’s The Green Wall
The film’s depiction of a family seeking renewal in the jungle, only to be devastated by tragedy, stages an encounter with the limits of human mastery over nature, the fragility of social bonds, and the inevitability of grief. Read against the background of Latin America’s colonial legacy, Cavell’s Emersonian call to the ordinary provides a counterpoint to the region’s inherited scepticism and its persistent ‘cultural melancholy’, marked by the t…
Stanley Cavell in Caracas
We present here excerpts from seminars, interviews, and conversations with Stanley Cavell during the time of his visit to Caracas in 1998. This material comprises Cavell’s responses to questions raised at the seminar, extracts from an interview with Maria Elena Ramos and Victor Krebs, and a subsequent letter they received from Cavell in response to further questions. Krebs’ introduction to the collection sets the scene for Cavell’s visit and sket…
Digital Media and Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Analogy (1 work) · Art, Technology, and Culture (1 work) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)