Friday, 23 November 2012
Tangible ->Mediating Virtuality + OOO?
I've been trying to keep the CFP in mind, but it's got a lot to compete with. A crowded place, my head is these days. One auspicious thing, though, came via a Merleau-Ponty quote for my paper for Christine's class:
"We must habituate ourselves to think that every visible is cut out of the tangible, every tactile being in some manner promised to visibility, and that there is encroachment, infringement, not only between the touched and the touching, but also between the tangible and the visible, which is encrusted in it, as, conversely, the tangible itself is not a nothingness of visibility, is not without visible existence."
- The Visible and the Invisible, 134.
NEAT. Opens the door for talking about Heidegger and Virtuality, as well as maybe some Object Oriented Ontology? Possibly together?
Haha, and as with one breath I excitedly open the door for the topic, I want to, with the next, restrict the breadth of the discussion a little too. I think the best CFPs strike a balance of defining a research theme without breaking it down into infinite many questions and possible tangents. (Tangent -> Tangible? Argh.)
What do you folks think?
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