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E-raamat: Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

(Univeristy of Chicago, USA)
  • Formaat: 340 pages, 30 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2006
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780203942390
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  • Formaat: 340 pages, 30 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2006
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780203942390
Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings.

Hansen draws upon recent work in visual culture, cognitive science, and new media studies, as well as examples of computer graphics, websites, and new media art, to show how our bodies are in some ways already becoming virtual.
The Author vii
Preface ix
Introduction: From the Image to the Power of Imaging: Virtual Reality and the "Originary" Specularity of Embodiment 1(22)
1. All Reality Is Mixed Reality
1(5)
2. The Power of Imaging and the Privilege of the Operational
6(8)
3. Virtual Reality as Embodied Power of Imaging
14(9)
Part I: Toward a Technics of the Flesh 23(82)
1 Bodies in Code, or How Primordial Tactility Introjects Technics into Human Life
25(80)
1. "Make Use of What Nature Has Given Us!"
25(13)
2. Body Schema As Potentiality
38(5)
3. Technics and the Dissolution of the Body Image
43(10)
4. Specularity beyond the Mirror-Image
53(6)
5. All Exteriorizations Are Exteriorizations of the Skin
59(8)
6. Primordial Tactility
67(4)
7. Seeing through the Hand
71(11)
8. Worldskin
82(12)
9. The Tele-Absent Body
94(11)
Part II: Locating the Virtual in Contemporary Culture 105(148)
2 Embodying Virtual Reality: Tactility and Self-Movement in the Work of Char Davies
107(32)
1. The Primacy of Self-Movement in Conferring Reality on Perception
113(13)
2. Beyond the Body-Image: Embodying Psychasthenia
126(13)
3 Digitizing the Racialized Body, or the Politics of Common Impropriety
139(36)
1. Beyond Symbolic Interpellation: Understanding Digital Performativity
142(3)
2. Beyond Visibility: the Generalization of Passing
145(2)
3. "Corporeal Malediction" and the "Racial-Epidermal Schema"
147(9)
4. From Negrophobia to Negrophilia
156(7)
5. Mobilizing Affectivity beyond the Image
163(5)
6. Forging the Affection-Body
168(7)
4 Wearable Space
175(46)
1. Encountering the Blur
178(5)
2. The Architectural Body
183(8)
3. The "Interiority" of Architecture
191(6)
4. Internal Resonance
197(2)
5. A New Organicism
199(11)
6. Wearing the Blur
210(11)
5 The Digital Topography of House of Leaves
221(32)
1. The Digital
229(3)
2. Media
232(6)
3. Body
238(15)
Notes 253(46)
References 299(10)
Bibliography 309(10)
Index 319
Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is author of New Philosophy forNew Media and Embodying Technesis: Technology BeyondWriting and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion toMerleau-Ponty.