Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media [Hardcover]

Mark B. N. Hansen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415970156 | ISBN-13: 978-0415970150 | Publication Date: September 20, 2006 | Edition: 1

Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings.

Hansen draws upon recent work in visual culture, cognitive science, and new media studies, as well as examples of computer graphics, websites, and new media art, to show how our bodies are in some ways already becoming virtual.

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"A stunning work of philosophical originality and brilliance."
-Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University

About the Author

Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is author of New Philosophy for New Media and Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415970156
• ISBN-13: 978-0415970150
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,850,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Academic contentless twoddle, September 6, 2010

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Wordsworth (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media (Hardcover)

Never has a truer word been spoken, I agree with the reviewer below completely - this attrocious book really is absolutly utterly worthless contentless nonsense - avoid like the plague!

4 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars academic masturbation, March 29, 2010

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parker jennings "skelitor" (ALBUQUERQUE, NM, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media (Hardcover)

This book is unnecessarily wordy. Throughout the book Hansen flexes his academic lexicon and takes several pages to make a point that could be made in one paragraph with simple language. His target audience seems to be pompous intellectuals. This book is not accessible for artist or students and I found it painful to read.