1st Edition

Bodily Engagements with Film, Images, and Technology Somavision

By Max Ryynänen Copyright 2022
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book builds a new understanding of the body and its relationship to images and technology, using a framework where novel writings of pragmatist somaesthetics and phenomenology meet new research on bodily reactions. Max Ryynänen gives an overview of the topic by collecting the existing information of our bodies gazing at visual culture and the philosophies supporting these phenomena, and... Read more

1. Somatic Film: Background, Classification, Education 2. Making It Real: The Need for the Presence of the Body in the Documentation of Contemporary Art 3. Cutting, Mending, Learning 4. Robot Cars 5. Disgust, the Inorganic, and the Enigmatic: The Dank Media Philosophy of Mario Perniola 6. Rasafiction: Can the Oldest Atmosphere Theory in the World Help Us to Understand Today’s Somaesthetic Manipulation?

Biography

Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University.