#sobchack

[athousandgateaux]

Vivian Sobchack compellingly argues...that electronic media 'engage [their] spectators and 'users' in a phenomenological structure of sensual and psychological experience that, in comparison with the cinematic, seems so diffused as to belong to no-body...the electronic is phenomenologically experienced not as a discrete, intentional, body-centered mediation and projection in space but rather as a simultaneous, dispersed, and insubstantial transmission across a network or web that is constituted spatially more as a materially flimsy latticework of nodal points than as a stable ground of embodied experience'

Steven Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, pg. 39

[warpwoof]

Vivian Sobchack

What magic, religion, and science have most in common, however, and what creates a profound and irrevocable bond bewteeen them in spite of their differences is that they all attempt to describe and confront the unknown in a manner which will satisfy man’s huner for security and control.  Since all three modes of action affect man in society, they are always in constant interaction in every society,  cooperating or battling with each other for social dominance. And, since they all deal with the unknown, wehre ones fails to satisfy, another will step into the breach. 

[dcfish-diarycomics]

5th April: DAILY UPDATES, let's go!

5th April: DAILY UPDATES, let’s go!

I’ve been having problems keeping up as regular a blogging schedule as I’d like and I think part of the reason is that I place too much importance on a blog entry (crazy huh)- it needs to be a certain length, it needs to have a point, it needs to be well structured etc. In a bid to overcome that and also to get back in the habit of daily posting, I’m giving this a go. Every day I’ll post an…

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