Author
Tan Wei Zheng
Supervisor
Asst Prof Kim Ji-Hoon
Year
2013
Abstract
This paper aims to be a philosophical treatise on the phenomenology of touch in
electronic and digital media devices. While the paper does examine gaming on
the iPad and other electronic devices, the purpose of the paper is not to delve into
ludology or the cultural issues surrounding gaming and electronic or digital media.
Rather, the paper explores the relationship between the lived-body and the electronic
and digital “body”. This is through using Vivian Sobchack’s work in Carnal Thoughts
as a springboard, paying special attention to how embodiment can be extended to
digital spaces—understood as “imaginal” spaces—and electronic devices.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51502