Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
ISBN:
9781478022343
Series Statement:
Sign, Storage, Transmission : 27
Content:
We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute a site of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of horn-whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument-to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects as a space of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dalí, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dalí conceived of images as tactile entities during his "rhinoceros phase" or examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of touch in media
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
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In English
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
DOI:
10.1515/9781478022343
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Schmidgen, Henning 1965-
