Hansen, Mark B.N. 2004. New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge: MIT.

Working from the traditional of Hayles. Phenomenological restructuring of the digital and body. Body is central processing unit of digital image and thus even more important.

INTRODUCTION

Body as ubiquitous form of aura that actualizes data.

Working off of Bergson. Body as a filter of images which selects those images most relevant.

Affectivity Definition: “the capacity of the body to experience itself as ‘more than itself’ and thus to deploy its sensorimotor power to create the unpredictable, the experimental, the new” (7).

Critiques Deleuze. Frame cannot be seen as autonomous since its very form is dependent on embodied perception. Must reverse Deleuze’s project and move from the frame back to the body.

“Beneath anyconcrete ‘technical’ image or frame lies what I shall call the framing function of the human body qua center of indetermination” (8).

Content of image and frame no longer connected.

Digital image must be redefined as the entire process by which information is made perceivable, including the body’s involvement as the nexus of this enframing.

“When the body acts to enframe digital information—or, as I put it, to forge the digital images—what it frames in in effect itself…the act of enframing information can be said to ‘give body’ to digital data—to transform something that is unframed, disembodied, and formless into concrete embodied information intrinsically imbued with (human) meaning” (13).

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