Phenomenology and media : an anthology of essays from Glimpse, publication of the Society for Phenomenology and Media, 1999-2008

During the first decade of its existence, from 1999 to 2008, the Society for Phenomenology and Media held annual international conferences in San Diego (California), Puebla (Mexico), Krakow (Poland), Helsinki (Finland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Provo (Utah), and Monmouth (Oregon). Papers delivered at these conferences were published in the Societys journal, Glimpse. The current volume is an anthology of essays drawn from the first ten years of Glimpse. The Society for Phenomenology and Media was founded by Paul Majkut. From its birth, the Society sought to bridge the gap between contemporary media theory and practice and phenomenological insight. The Society currently has over 100 international members. Essays in this anthology include work on digital representation, film, mobile communication, cyberspace, medieval manuscripts, print, radio, the stage, TV, virtual reality, and other media, as well as theoretical papers dealing with media aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and ontology. Papers included draw attention to the implications for media of the thought of Althusser, Deleuze, Foucault, Flusser, Husserl, Ihde, Ingarden, Iser, Levinas, Negri, McLuhan, Merleau-Ponty, Stein, and others. While various phenomenological approaches remain important, the Society is open to all perspectives on media. Feminist, formalist, essentialist, existential, hermeneutic, material-cultural, Marxist, post-colonial, and other approaches all play a role in the Society for Phenomenology and Media. Contents Preface Introduction: Undercurrents Hermeneutics and Nihilism in a World of Generalized Communication: Gianni Vattimo on a Late Legacy of Nietzsche - Marc Van den Bossche Enter the World of Your Heroes: Enhanced-TV, Fans and a New Way of Participation - Mélanie Bourdaa Dissembling Images: Electronic Media and Writing - Alison Leigh Brown The Experiential Dimension in Online Learning: Phenomenology, Technology and Breakdowns - Darryl Cressman an d Edward Hamilton Depth of Field and the Phenomenology of Global Events - Stephen Crocker Dancing the Dance: Authentic Engagement in a Created Self or Execution of Practiced Skill - Tracy P. Dalke The Soul Factor: Deception in Intimations of Life in Computer-Generated Characters - Kathryn S. Egan Dasein and the Existential Structure of Cinematic Spectatorship: A Heideggerian Analysis - Kevin Fisher Roman Ingarden’s Theory of Schematized Profiles: A Dynamic Version - Thor Grünbaum If Journalists Were Vedantins - Bina Gupta Epistemology without a Vicious Circle - Arnór Hannibalsson Information Warfare and Leadership: The Philosophical Question of Neo-Modern Soldiership - Aki-Mauri Huhtinen “We Are All Subhuman”: Responsibility and Media through Sartre’s Nausea - Julia V. Iribarne Technological Texture: A Phenomenological Look at the Experience of Editing Visual Media on a Computer - Stacey O’Neal Irwin The Opacity of the Transparent: A Time-Dweller’s Voyage in the World of the Film Titanic - Matti Itkonen Cellular Irruptions - David R. Koukal The Digital Ethnography : Multimedia Qualitative Analysis - Kenneth Liberman Digital Communities of Representation: Wittgenstein to Brazilian Motoboys - Alberto López Cuenca Husserl on the Artist and the Philosopher: Aesthetical and Phenomenological Attitude - Sebastian Luft The Web Site: A Social Event - Lars Lundsten Empathy’s Impostor: Interactivity and Intersubjectivity - Paul Majkut Empathy, Mediation. Media - Chris Nagel On Modes of Consciousness(es) and Electronic Culture - Melentie Pandilovski Culture and Identity in Electronic Space - Lea Marie Ruiz Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of Quicktime - Vivian Sobchack Phenomenology of Internet Privacy (Rights) - Albert D. Spalding, Jr. Augmented Reality, Augmented Perception: Phenomenological Approach to Interface Culture - Janez Strehovec Reality and Its Simile - Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Mobile Communication: The Call of Mobility - Randall Dana Ulveland Scanning Visual Images and Relations - Jarmo Valkola Aesthetics of New Media - Krystyna Wilkoszewska The Mobility of Mobile Phones: A Phenomenological Analysis - Zhenming Zhai INDEX