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Horn, or The Counterside of Media (Hardcover)
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Horn, or The Counterside of Media (Hardcover)
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We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time,
media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and
smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects
on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces
constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior.
Schmidgen uses the concept of "horn"-whether manifested as a
rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument-to stand for both natural
substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters
into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers,
ranging from Salvador Dali, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to
Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the
complex interplay between tactility and technological and
biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dali conceived of images
as tactile entities during his "rhinoceros phase" or examining the
problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,
Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of
touch in media.
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