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Wegenstein, Getting Under the Skin: the Body and Media Theory (2006)

June 16, 2010

Aimée Knight

Wegenstein, Bernadette. Getting Under the Skin: The Body and Media Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.

In this book Weggensgtein address our “technogenesis” (our coeveolution, as  a living species-being, with technics). She makes the argument that due to deep-seated changes we have undergone with regards to technology we now possess an “organ instead of a body.”  What this means is that  we can understand the body as mediation. I like this approach because it points to the body as the medium–nothing more and nothing less and might help my discussion of embodiment, if that is something I choose to develop. Another truly strange book on ‘aesthetics’ and new media from MIT Press.

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