When Bodies Go Digital
This article intends to investigate contemporary works of art (“Rain Room”, “On Air”), fiction (David Mitchell, Jeannette Winterson, Thomas Pynchon, Kazuo Ishiguro) and films (The Congress, Black Mirror) together with emerging social practices to charter the impact of digital technologies on our rel...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_1856 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1856 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.1856 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1856 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n0h https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ When Bodies Go Digital Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Larsonneur, Claire perception numérique réalité immersive ingénierie corporelle société du contrôle abjection fiction contemporaine technologie numérique digital perception immersive reality body engineering surveillance abjection contemporary fiction digital technology This article intends to investigate contemporary works of art (“Rain Room”, “On Air”), fiction (David Mitchell, Jeannette Winterson, Thomas Pynchon, Kazuo Ishiguro) and films (The Congress, Black Mirror) together with emerging social practices to charter the impact of digital technologies on our relation to the body. Devices such as Google Glasses or Go-Pro cameras prompt a reframing of our perceptions through borrowed and enriched sensory experiences. Digital practices, tailored to blend in seamlessly with our daily activities, contribute to implement further the logic of immersion and compositing described by Lev Manovich in his analysis of new media. Beyond the field of media, digital technologies are also playing a role in the re-engineering of the human body itself. Bodies are being produced, tailored and marketed in a society that thrives on continuous body-display and monitoring, raising political and economic issues. Those digital body-chimeras could be described as unstable entities that threaten our sense of order and of ourselves, echoing Kristeva’s analysis of abjection. Comment les technologies numériques affectent-elles notre relation au corps ? C’est par l’exploration conjointe de pratiques sociales émergentes et d’un corpus d’œuvres de fiction contemporaines (David Mitchell, Jeannette Winterson, Thomas Pynchon, Kazuo Ishiguro), de films (The Congress, Black Mirror) et d’œuvres d’art (“Rain Room”, “On Air”) qu’on tentera de répondre à cette question. Les conditions usuelles de la perception sont affectées par des objets tels que les Google glasses ou les caméras Go-Pro, lesquelles génèrent des expériences sensorielles inédites, empruntées ou enrichies. Les dispositifs numériques, conçus afin de s’insérer sans heurts dans notre vie quotidienne, participent du développement de la logique immersive, fondée sur la technique de composition d’images, que décrit Lev Manovich dans son analyse des nouveaux médias. Par delà le champ médiatique, les technologies numériques jouent également un rôle dans l’ingénierie corporelle : au sein d’une société de contrôle qui valorise l’exposition et la surveillance permanente des corps, ceux-ci se voient produits, standardisés et mis sur le marché, ce qui soulève de nombreuses questions politiques et économiques. Les corps-chimères numériques ne sont-ils pas des entités instables, susceptibles de mettre en danger la manière dont nous faisons sens du sujet et du monde, relevant de l’abjection telle que la définit Kristeva ? |
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This article intends to investigate contemporary works of art (“Rain Room”, “On Air”), fiction (David Mitchell, Jeannette Winterson, Thomas Pynchon, Kazuo Ishiguro) and films (The Congress, Black Mirror) together with emerging social practices to charter the impact of digital technologies on our relation to the body. Devices such as Google Glasses or Go-Pro cameras prompt a reframing of our perceptions through borrowed and enriched sensory experiences. Digital practices, tailored to blend in seamlessly with our daily activities, contribute to implement further the logic of immersion and compositing described by Lev Manovich in his analysis of new media. Beyond the field of media, digital technologies are also playing a role in the re-engineering of the human body itself. Bodies are being produced, tailored and marketed in a society that thrives on continuous body-display and monitoring, raising political and economic issues. Those digital body-chimeras could be described as unstable entities that threaten our sense of order and of ourselves, echoing Kristeva’s analysis of abjection. |
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