340 Pages
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Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
From the Image to the Power of Imaging; 1: Toward a Technics of the Flesh; 1: Bodies in Code, or How Primordial Tactility Introjects Technics into Human Life; 2: Locating the Virtual in Contemporary Culture; 2: Embodying Virtual Reality; 3: Digitizing the Racialized Body, or the Politics of Common Impropriety; 4: Wearable Space; 5: The Digital Topography of House of Leaves
Biography
Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is author of New Philosophy for New Media and Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.
'A stunning work of philosophical originality and brilliance.' - Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University
