Abstract
The visual, or that which can be "seen", is only a part of an image, and the gap between the visible and essential realities of images is constantly growing. This article proposes the paradigm of virtual reality to describe in one word the image's multiple generative, operational and functional links with that which is not "image" in it, and which therefore goes beyond it and enhances it in new ways. The development of this model poses several problems: - An epistemological problem: what new relationship does the virtual introduce between the visible and the intelligible, between seeing and knowing? - An ethical problem: what truth can be attributed to virtual images? What self-images can be portrayed? What is to be done with the image of others? - An ontological problem: what relationship is there between a being and its virtual representation? Between presence and the image of presence?
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