Category: The Body
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Dance and Digital/Virtual Technologies, by Jaana Parviainen
Dwelling in the virtual sonic environment: Phenomenological analysis of dancers’ learning processes in working with the EGM interface by Jaana Parviainen We must admit that the sound, of itself, prompts rather a grasping movement, and visual perception the act of pointing. (Merleau-Ponty 1962, 131) This article discusses some findings in the context of the EGM…
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Richard Rorty on Radicalism, Liberalism, and Poetic Language
I was very impressed reading something that Richard Rorty wrote about revolutionaries in his essay “The Contingency of Community” ( in the book “Contingency, irony, and solidarity”). Rorty argues very cogently for a kind of “impossible” deconstructive synthesis of radicalism and liberalism.
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“Desperate Living” (film): John Waters’ Science Fiction Dystopia, by Alan N. Shapiro
Maybe it was the mono sound of my budget-priced video recorder, which the salesperson at Saturn Hansa had dubbed the ‘Trabant’ (der Trabi, das Symbol eines verschwundenen Landes, the symbol of a disappeared country, hat heute längst Kultstatus erreicht, has long since attained cult status) of VCRs.