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Mark
B. N. Hansen
New Philosophy for New Media
<book> The MIT Press
ISBN 026208321
How much is the flow of information incorporeal and detached
from our relation with organic reality? How much is digital image, with
its multidimensional possibility of distorsion and simulation, detached
from the movements of our body? The author's thesis is that the image,
having become a process apart, is now irremediably linked to our body
activities. In fact, the elaboration of an image is becoming more and
more transparent in the visible grid of pulsating pixels of its digital
representation. The effects it provokes on our senses are tangible in
the transformation of our perceptions, as documented in a critique of
the 'cinematographic' positions of Manovich, with citations from Virilio
and his 'vision machine' and a rich set of works by Jeffrey Shaw, Tamas
Waliczky, Mongrel, Bill Viola and Robert Lazzarini. In this counter-current
systematization several theories meet, such as the sublimation of the
body in a facial expression, used even in marketing theories which translate
the satisfaction of a user in its facial expression, enticing him to
buy the product (like in magazine covers, which depict almost only faces).
An entire school of thought is challenged: the one based of the subtle
insinuation of informations, and it's not challenged frontally with
arguments based on the necessity of the organic, but with a side approach
which erodes its axioms, proposing an organically coherent perspective.
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