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Disembodied Materiality: Re-affirming the Real in the Virtual

Concepts of disembodied observer and dematerialization of visual sensations are theoretical consequences of the contemporary proliferation of the digital media. Against these consequences, the philosophy of Henri Bergson was newly engaged, for whom the bodily affectivity makes the site of image perception. According to his interpreters, visual impressions gain materiality through the body of the observer. As Mark Hansen puts it, though dematerialized through the "new media", digitally coded information gets rematerialized through the body responses. However, while the observer embodies the medium, her or his corporeality acquires the features of media representation. Precisely because she or he embodies the media interface, she or he cannot retain her or his corporeality. If visual representation necessarily presumes the disembodied observer, then the attention should be paid to the material character of observer's disembodiment, to the materiality of observer's incorporeality or, in Brian Massumi's words, to the “Real-material-but-incorporeal”.

real, actual, virtual, new media, mimetic faculty, Walter Benjamin, Henry Bergson, Martin B. N. Hansen

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