The metaverse has seen growing corporate and popular interest over the past few years. While visions vary, the metaverse is generally seen as an extension of the internet that may be developed through advances in a number of digital technologies, such as augmented and virtual reality, as well as new technical infrastructure and standards. The metaverse constitutes an emerging social imaginary, a way of both understanding and directing our shared existence. This paper examines this emerging social imaginary through the phenomenological concept of dwelling, or being at home in the world, as developed by Martin Heidegger. To examine in depth one influential articulation of this social imaginary, this paper focuses on the metaverse as envisioned by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook). The paper presents a thematic analysis of Zuckerberg's public statements regarding the metaverse to provide a close reading of this particular vision. Then, through the lens of Heidegger's philosophy of dwelling, this paper identifies numerous threats to dwelling posed by the metaverse social imaginary. This paper explains these threats and their prognoses, and it closes with some considerations for how the metaverse could be designed to better facilitate human dwelling.
翻译:过去几年来,这一逆向是公司和大众兴趣不断增长的元体。虽然各种观点各不相同,但该逆向一般被视为互联网的延伸,可以通过一些数字技术的发展,例如扩大和虚拟现实,以及新的技术基础设施和标准来发展互联网。该逆向是一种新出现的社会想象,一种理解和指导我们共同存在的方式。本文审视了这一新出现的社会假想,这种社会假想是通过由马丁·海德格尔所制定的居住或居于世界的情感概念而形成的。为了深入研究这一社会想象的具有影响力的表达,本文侧重于Meta首席执行官Mark Zuckerberg(前脸书)所构想的元体。本文对Zuckerberg关于元体的公开声明进行了专题分析,以提供对这一特定愿景的仔细解读。然后,通过海德格的住宅哲学,本文从透镜中找出了由逆向社会虚构对住宅构成的无数威胁。本文解释了这些威胁及其预言,并结束了对如何设计这一逆向更便利人类居住的一些考虑。