Cuerpo sin carne: una mirada fenomenológica a la extensión corporal en medios digitales (Fleshless Body: A Phenomenological Perspective on Bodily Extension in Digital Media) (Text in Spanish)

Políticas y Narrativas Del Cuerpo 2 / Politics and Narratives of the Body 2 / Politiques Et Récits du Corps 2 2:263-277 (2024)
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Abstract

Body as a radical reality in human activity is a common thesis in the phenomenological thought, from its origin in the work of Edmund Husserl, in those of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry, to post-phenomenological currents, including Don Ihde and the American school. As a complementary thesis, they highlight the presence of the body in technologies: its deep interaction and integration, generating a certain bodily extension that makes the user-device an environment of intentional feedback through which flows the matter of the experienced. Through the synthesis of previous techniques, digital media have deepened this capacity for integration: through embodiment and representation, hardware and software, multiple forms of bodily extension are experimentable. From the construction of these alternative corporealities emerges the narrative of a digital body as a 'real body', controlled by us, fully equivalent and similar to our own bodies. In this text we propose a brief analysis of digital corporeality based on phenomenological reflections, especially those around tactile self-perception, as a foundation for a criterion of bodily identity applicable to these technologies and which reclaims the original and carnal experience of the user.

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Íñigo García-Moncó
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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