Monday, April 8, 2013

"body" in critical terms for media studies

by Bernadette Wegenstein

N. Katherine Hayles   in How we became posthuman   proposes embodiment vs body
"In contrast to the body, embodiment is contextual, enmeshed within the specifics of place, time, physiology and culture, which together compose enactment."

Hayles names this tendency to privilege the manipulation of information over specific materiality the "posthuman."
ideology under this previliging of pattern: disembodiment of information allows for fast and easy translation across divergent systems

traditional chinese medicine


Merleau Ponty (phenomenology of perception)--- Bernard Stiegler--- deconstruct the division between
                                                                           a natural state of human being and tis technological, medial usurper
                                                                         ---- Mark Hansen


The subject's auto-awareness of interacting on more than one level of representation has been pushed to its extreme in the unified platforms of the entertainment industry's theme parks, for example, where film, video game and comic book franchises are marked to consumers in fully combined forms, as shown by Angela Ndalianis.

an example of "media architecture"   blur building      " space has been made wearable"


The Möbius strip  has been a standard metaphor for theorists from Jacques Lacan to Elizabeth Grosz, who have used it to conceptualize the body and subjectivity as an indivisible complex, in which the outside flows to the inside without any apparent break.


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