Bodies in Code
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"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.
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目录
Introduction: From the Image to the Power of Imaging:
Virtual Reality and the “Originary” Specularity of Embodiment 1
1. All Reality Is Mixed Reality 1
2. The Power of Imaging and the Privilege of the Operational 6
3. Virtual Reality as Embodied Power of Imaging 14
Part I: Toward a Technics of the Flesh 23
1 Bodies in Code, or How Primordial Tactility Introjects Technics into Human Life 25
1. “Make Use of What Nature Has Given Us!” 25
2. Body Schema As Potentiality 38
3. Technics and the Dissolution of the Body Image 43
4. Specularity beyond the Mirror‐Image 53
5. All Exteriorizations Are Exteriorizations of the Skin 59
6. Primordial Tactility 67
7. Seeing through the Hand 71
8. Worldskin 82
9. The Tele‐Absent Body 94
Part II: Locating the Virtual in Contemporary Culture 105
2 Embodying Virtual Reality: Tactility andSelf‐Movement in the Work of Char Davies 107
1. The Primacy of Self‐Movement in Conferring Reality on Perception 113
2. Beyond the Body‐Image: Embodying Psychasthenia 126
3 Digitizing the Racialized Body, or the Politics of Common Impropriety 139
1. Beyond Symbolic Interpellation: Understanding Digital Performativity 142
2. Beyond Visibility: the Generalization of Passing 145
3. “Corporeal Malediction” and the “Racial–Epidermal
Schema” 147
4. From Negrophobia to Negrophilia 156
5. Mobilizing Affectivity beyond the Image 163
6. Forging the Affection‐Body 168
4 Wearable Space 175
1. Encountering the Blur 178
2. The Architectural Body 183
3. The “Interiority” of Architecture 191
4. Internal Resonance 197
5. A New Organicism 199
6. Wearing the Blur 210
5 The Digital Topography of House of Leaves 221
1. The Digital 229
2. Media 232
3. Body 238
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