{"id":2589,"date":"2011-02-08T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2011-02-11T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T03:22:28","slug":"whitehead-media-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/02\/08\/whitehead-media-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehead & media theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jussi Parikka at Machinology<\/a> is reporting on media theorist Mark Hansen’s move from a focus on media objects<\/em> to a Whiteheadian focus on media processes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A few quotes:<\/p>\n

“Well known are the Whitehead writings of Massumi and Manning in Montreal, and of course the recent Whitehead writings of Steven Shaviro, the debates around object oriented philosophy that take a lot aboard from Whitehead, and naturally the ideas of such pioneers as Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour. So Hansen as well has joined this crew enthusiastic about the superject<\/span> instead of subject, and the distributed field of prehensions<\/span> instead of the primacy of the human body and sensory system as the focal point in aesthetics.” [. . .]<\/p>\n

“When Shaviro<\/a> asked the question of how would contemporary cultural theory look like if we had focused more on Whitehead, instead of Heidegger as the 20th century philosopher, Hansen seems to ask: how could we bend Whitehead into a media theorist? [. . .] For Hansen, the key point is how Whitehead\u2019s perspective affords us to think about nonperceptual sensation. It gives agency to the environment instead of the focal subject effected and affected by that environment, and offers the perspective of the superject for media theory: how the individual is the end result of the environmental datum prehended by this focal point.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I deal more with cinema and less with trans-media networks (etc.), my use of Whitehead in Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/em> is very consistent with this shift. Glad to be sharing this train with so much respectable company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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