Naslov
Disembodied Materiality: Re-affirming the Real in the Virtual

Autori
Mijatović, Aleksandar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Crossings and Contaminations: Studies in Comparative Literature

Urednik/ci
Coutinho, Eduardo/ Pina, Coco

Izdavač
Aeroplano Editora

Grad
Rio de Janeiro

Godina
2009

Raspon stranica
402-411

ISBN
978-85-7820-015-2

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

Sažetak
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”.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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