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Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have
altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet
and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a
screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to
what we see and, somehow, an element of our sensory presence is
transmitted elsewhere. It is often claimed that this change in the
way we perceive the world and each other is without precedent, and
is solely the result of twenty-first-century life and technologies.
This book argues otherwise. The author analyses the evolving
portrayals of 'haptic' sensations - that is, sensations that are at
once tactile and visual - in the theories and prose of the
writer-philosophers Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Maurice Blanchot
(1907-2003) and Michel Serres (1930-). In exploring haptic
perception in the works of Bataille, Blanchot and Serres, the
author examines haptic theories postulated by Alois Riegl, Laura U.
Marks, Mark Paterson and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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