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Bodies in Code

Mark B. N. Hansen
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cognitive science theory
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Collective Individuation
Corporeal Malediction
digital embodiment
Eisenman's Project
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embodied experience in virtual environments
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Historico Racial Schema
human computer interaction
individuation
Keith Piper
Landing Sites
media art analysis
mirror
mixed
Muscular Skin
Online Identity Performance
Orthographic Recording
Perceptual Invariants
phenomenal
Phenomenal Body
phenomenology technology interface
Racial Epidermal Schema
reality
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Skin Ego
Slow House
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Virtual Reality
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415970150
  • Weight: 589g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Sep 2006
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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.
About Mark B. N. Hansen

Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is author of New Philosophy forNew Media and Embodying Technesis: Technology BeyondWriting and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion toMerleau-Ponty.

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