Following Gilles Deleuze, this book envisions virtuality as opposed not to reality but to actuality, connecting this relationship with Niklas Luhmann's conceptions of medium and form. Sand is treated as a metaphorical model of virtuality given its quality as a medium, i.e. its openness to shaping and dissolving different forms. The study examines the implications of these processes for literature, theory, and art.

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Annina Klappert, Seminar für Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Erfurt.