Man as a Drunken Town-Musician

Kittler, Friedrich; Holland, Jocelyn

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“…An examination of the strategies embodied in and articulated through the Falcon discloses the ways that the body and its senses are reshaped and redefined by encounters with interfaces capable of synthesizing variously scaled spaces. Mark Hansen's (2006: 15) definition of virtual reality as 'a technology that lays bare the enabling constraints of the body' frames the body as irreducible to technics, explicitly pushing back against Friedrich Kittler's (1999) suggestion that the logics organizing and mapping the mediatized body express the autonomy of the technical. For Hansen (2006: 9), VR calls attention to the fundamental technicity of the human, while being 'a concrete moment in the history of human technogenesis'.…”

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Reach In and Feel Something: On the Strategic Reconstruction of Touch in Virtual Space

Parisi

2014

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The drive to make human-computer interactions more efficient and effortless has pushed interface designers to think about new methods of information transmission, display and manipulation. The incorporation of haptic feedback cues into the computer interfacing schematic allows the tactile channel to be opened up as a means of complementing and challenging the data provided by the senses of seeing and hearing. In this article, using the Novint Corporation's Falcon threedimensional touch interface as a case study, the author examines the strategic aims of animating and scaling computer-generated space for the haptic. Spaces of heterogeneous scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, can be rendered as analogous force sensations using the Falcon's three-dimensional workspace. The author argues that the project of incorporating complex touch feedback into computing entails not just a transformation of spatiotemporal field accessed by touch, but a wholesale redefinition and rearticulation of touch as a category of human experience.

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Reach In and Feel Something: On the Strategic Reconstruction of Touch in Virtual Space

Parisi

2014

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Erschöpfte Literatur. Über das Neue bei Samuel Beckett

Schäfer

2009

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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The article investigates literary subjectivity in some texts by Samuel Beckett. The article proceeds by relating the ways of how narration and speech acts constitute literary subjectivity to the problems of subjectivity that scientific investigations deal with. While successful self-regulation of the organism nourishes the roots of subjectivity, i.e., the habits, subjectivity decomposes in states of exhaustion, when self-regulation breaks down. As soon as a certain threshold is transgressed, fatigue sets in, alters the personality and eventually leads to exhaustion--a state, which psychiatrists compare to mental illness. Notwithstanding the different explanations given, scientists agreed about the effects of exhaustion. According to their investigations, the decomposition of personality by exhaustion generally does not involve apathy, withdrawal from activity or termination of movements, but rather mere action. Similarly, in Beckett's novels and plays exhaustion is much more than tiredness, as French philosopher Gilles Deleuze observed. For Beckett, exhaustion is rather the model for both literary innovation and a new concept of subjectivity, which he explores on the basis of a detailed knowledge of physiology, psychology, and psychiatry, but using his own literary means. The exhausted subject is beyond any calculus of activity. It will perform an activity even if he or she makes mistakes or loses control, and will thus act in an unpredictable way. This unpredictable action is not an exception in the continuation of the habits, but rather points to the moment when a new subjectivity emerges. Such new subjectivity suraces in Beckett's novels and plays in forms of literary innovation.

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The Coupling of Cinematics and Kinematics

Stine

2014

Grey Room

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Man as a Drunken Town-Musician

Cited by 6 publications

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Reach In and Feel Something: On the Strategic Reconstruction of Touch in Virtual Space

Reach In and Feel Something: On the Strategic Reconstruction of Touch in Virtual Space

Erschöpfte Literatur. Über das Neue bei Samuel Beckett

The Coupling of Cinematics and Kinematics

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