Virtualization
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P140
2025-07-20
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Virtualization
The term virtualization refers to one of the two basic modes of semiotic existence: virtual or actual. Virtual here denotes that which is in a state of simple possibility, but which in its essence contains the main conditions for its realization, in other words, it means possible/ potential. Accordingly, virtualizing modalities are wishing (vouloir) and having to do or to be (devoir).
Taking language as an example, virtual existence characterizes the paradigmatic axis and actual existence the syntagmatic axis. To put it another way: virtual existence is represented by the language system (langue) as opposed to its actualization in the process of speaking (parole). The category virtual/actual thus characterizes the relationship between system and process.
With regard to the semiotic model of the narrative, the couple virtualization/actualization has been replaced by the ternary virtualiza tion/actualization/realization in order to describe accurately all possible modes of junction between a subject and an object. Thus before any junction has taken place, subjects and objects are said to occupy virtual positions; they are actualized when the two actants are disjoined; and they are realized once subject and object are conjoined. A person and a car are in virtual positions while the person is only wishing to possess it. We speak of realization once the car has been acquired and of mere actualization if the money has been saved but the car not yet purchased, or if - for non-payment for example - it has been reclaimed by its vendor.
See also actualization and realization.
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