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Berlin the Hyperreal and Virtual Realities of Sex in a Dark Room
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Sen, Burak; Tüzün, Defne
Berlin’s unique history as an urban epicenter for the key events of the previous centuries also witnesses an era which is known as the “Golden Twenties”. The sexually liberated atmosphere of the then Weimar Berlin is in a way being simulated inside spaces urban phenomena called the “dark room”. A popular type of accommodation in the nightlife scene of the city in 2017 which serves as an entertainment space for the people who seek to experience a sexually charged escape from the humdrumness of reality. Meanwhile the advancements for the technology of Virtual Reality are catching up with the philosophical visions for virtual realities. This thesis intends to discuss the mind’s capacity to imagine through a philosophical examination and debate on reality and whether or not there are virtual realities by opening Berlin’s dark rooms Virtual Reality technologies the history of art films and film theory to discussion. Contextualized by Jean Baudrillard the hyperreal is one of the key concepts in making clarifying and criticizing these points of discussion. Furthermore the thesis revisits ancient philosophical debates such as Plato’s allegory of the cave while making observations on the most recent examples in Virtual Reality such as Alejandro González iñárritu’s installation Carne y Arena (2017). Although this thesis intends to refrain itself from analysis on a microscopic level concepts and ideas of film theorists who worked within a psychoanalytical framework will also be revisited to be able to suggest an explanation to certain phenomena such as the dark rooms in analogy with virtual reality. The general aim will be to open points of discussion which are thought to be significant for critique of recent examples in entertainment.