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The foreword by Tim Lenoir, "Haptic Vision: Computation, Media, and
\nEmbodiment in Mark Hansen’s New Phenomenology," lays out groundwork on the "deterritorialization
\nof the human subject" in terms of digital media, detachment and problems of
\nreference.  Lenoir touches on Hayles’ account of post-humanism (also Bill
\nJoy’s "Why The Future
\nDoesn’t Need Us"<\/a>), Shannon & Weaver’s signal-based model of information, and
\nDonald McKay’s alternative communication model.  Overall, it’s more than a
\nworthwhile thumbnail of Hansen’s project in the context of other works only
\nsemi-familiar to me: Kittler’s Gramophone<\/i>, Deleuze’s Cinema 1 & 2:<\/i>,
\nand Henri Bergson on the body as image: <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nThe body is itself an image among other images–in fact a very special kind
\nof image Bergson calls a "center of indetermination," which acts as a filter
\ncreatively selecting facets of images from the universal flux according to its
\nown capacities.  The body, then is a source of action on the world of
\nimages, subtracting among external influences those that are relevant to its own
\ninterests.  Bergson calls such isolated image components "perceptions."
\n(xx)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lenoir’s foreword solidly marches us through the conceptual surrounds to
\nHansen’s concerns with embodiment, enframing and the relationship of image and
\nbody which has been redefined by digital technologies.  I keyed especially
\non the notion of post-medium<\/i>, something Lenoir critiques as an extreme
\nposition from Kittler: post-medium–"when media disappear into information flow,
\nwhen information no longer needs to adapt" (xvii).  Affect is central to
\nHansen’s project, and so it makes sense, given this contrast with the idea of
\npost-medium, that Hansen would extend Bergson’s stance with emphases on vision,
\ntouch and self-movement: body and image.  The sharpest part of the foreword
\ncomes near the end with the discussion of affective cognition.  According
\nto Lenoir, "affect provides the bond between temporal flow and perceptual event"
\n(xxv).  Summarizing neurophenomenologist Francisco Varela, Lenoir notes
\n"that affect precedes temporality and ‘sculpts’ the dynamics of time flow"
\n(xxv).  Taken to questions about the visceral interaction between body and
\nimage, these affectively sculpted dynamics transform the "thresholds of the now"
\nincumbent to new media.  <\/p>\n

Well yes of course, and there is the part of the book by Hansen. 
\nIntroduction (1-15):  When aura, as from Benjamin, vanishes (or rather
\nsubmerges into the dull wash of commonplaces); when, as Rosalind Krauss might
\nargue, the post-medium condition has burdened us with "the possibility for the
\nuniversal and limitless interconversion of data" (2); and when, as Kittler might
\ncontend, "digital convergence promises to render obsolete the now still crucial
\nmoment of perception, as today’s hybrid media system gives way to the pure flow
\nof data unencumbered by any need to differentiate into concrete media types"
\n(2), we need not to surrender the body to these seemingly dehumanizing forces. 
\nHansen asks, "Will media matter in a digital age?" (1).  We might find in
\nhis project an affirmative response, one that, by involving Bergson’s Matter
\nand Memory<\/i>, establishes the body as a kind of medial nexus: "the body
\nfunctions as a kind of filter that selects, from among the universe of images
\ncirculating around it and according to its own embodied capacities, precisely
\nthose that are relevant to it" (3).  Perception is always embodied, then. 
\nThe body becomes an affective aggregator, inevitably selecting among (a
\nplenitude of possible) perceptual experiences and leaving out the rest. 
\nThe enframing body wreaks havoc on idealized, ocularcentric notions of frame:
\n"Beneath any concrete ‘technical’ image or frame lies what I shall call the
\nframing function of the human body qua center of indetermination" (8). <\/p>\n

In chapter one, "Between Body and Image: On the ‘Newness’ of New Media Art,"
\n(21-46), Hansen argues that "the body’s centrality increases proportionally with
\nthe de-differentiation of media" (21).  We experience variously encoded
\nrealities (physical, virtual, hallucinatory), and we experience, in the digital
\nera, changes in the "body’s scope of perceptual and affective possibilities"
\n(22).  New media embodiment stands (if hologrammatically<\/i>?) among
\nsuch realities and possibilities.  Specifically, Hansen critiques art
\nhistorian Rosalind Krauss and media studies scholar Lev Manovich.  Krauss’s
\n"pulsatile dimension," which she applied to Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs<\/i> and
\nJames Coleman’s Box<\/i> (on Tunney-Dempsey boxing) which involve the viewer’s
\nbody in the "filmic fabric" (28), privileges the work over the body and thus it
\nisn’t quite adequate to account for the aesthetic (synesthetic?) experience of
\nprojects such as Douglas Gordon’s 24-Hour Psycho<\/i> (Hitchcock’s film at a
\n"disjunctive" two frames per second (29)) and Paul Pfeiffer’s The Long Count<\/i>. 
\nThe bulk of the chapter turns critical attention to Lev Manovich’s The
\nLanguage of New Media<\/i>. Hansen sees Manovich’s reliance on film as
\noverwrought–too dependent on models of cinema-frame-image that bear out
\nculturally and historically, confining the "polymorphous possibility" of the
\ndigital image (35).  Hansen also regard Manovich’s discussion of VR as
\nprivileging the physical to the representational, a mistake which is even more
\nglaring in consideration of the telepresence interface (40) (simulators for
\nsurgery, etc.).  Manovich’s work, ultimately, is too cinematically
\ndetermined, according to H.  <\/p>\n

Quotations
\n"All forms of cognitive act arise from coherent activity of subpopulations of
\nneurons at multiple locations" (xxiv).
\n"The philosophical problem [Bergson] faces is how to reconcile the specific
\naggregate of images that appears to my body functioning as such a center of
\nindetermination and the aggregate of images that comprises the universe as a
\nwhole… (4)
\n"Affection of affectivity is precisely what differentiates today’s
\nsensorimotor body from the one Deleuze hastily dismisses: as a capacity to
\nexperience its own intensity, its own margin of indeterminacy, affectivity
\ncomprises a power of the body that cannot be assimilated to the habit-driven,
\nassociational logic governing perception" (7-8).
\n"Correlated with the advent of digitization, then, the body undergoes a
\ncertain empowerment, since it deploys its own constitutive singularity
\n(affection and memory) not to filter a universe of preconstituted images, but
\nactually to enframe<\/i> something (digital information) that is originally
\nformless" (11).
\n"As I see it, the reaffirmation of the affective body as the "enframer"
\nof information correlates with the fundamental shift in the materiality of
\nmedia: the body’s centrality increases proportionally with the
\nde-differentiation of media" (21).
\n"Far from being the source of a reductive unification of diversity, the body
\nis the very place where such diversity can be retained in a nonreductive
\naggregation.  As such, it is itself an integral dimension of the medium"
\n(25).
\n"The body, then, impurifies vision constitutionally, since, as Krauss points
\nout, there would be no vision without it: like the affective dimension of
\nperception, the corporeal holds a certain priority in relation to vision" (27).
\n"Because digitization allows for an almost limitless potential to modify the
\nimage, that is, any image–and specifically, to modify the image in ways that
\ndisjoin it from any fixed technical frame–the digital calls on us to invest the
\nbody as that "place" where the self-differing of media gets concretized" (31).
\n"Recent phenomenological and scientific research has shed light on precisely
\nhow and why such manual, tactile stimulation functions as "reality-conferring"
\nin the sense just elucidated. Phenomenologist Hans Jonas, from whom I borrow
\nthis felicitous term, has shown that the disembodied (and hence, supposedly most
\n"noble") sense of vision is rooted in an and dependent on touch for its
\nreality-conferring affective correlate" (38).<\/p>\n

Figures: Benjamin (1), Bergson (4), Deleuze (6), Manovich (9), Krauss (23), Duchamp (26) <\/p>\n

Terms: extended mind (xx), movement-image (xxii), machinic vision (xxiii), haptic
\n(xxiii), embodied perception (4), time-image (6), body’s framing function (8), philosophemes (25), ergodic (39), hallucination (41), cinematic metaphor (42), visual-bodily cross-mapping (39)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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