Bodies in Code

Interfaces with Digital Media
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-97016-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansen, Mark B. N.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.