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media. argument - located bodies are always mediated and mediating bodies mediation - a process of negotiating, communicating, translating, representing. media?. conventional understanding - writing, printing, painting, photography, TV, video, film

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  1. media • argument - located bodies are always mediated and mediating bodies • mediation - a process of negotiating, communicating, translating, representing

  2. media? • conventional understanding - • writing, printing, painting, photography, TV, video, film • the systems of production that accompany these

  3. media - a question of representation? • what is being represented in our five works? • the Sims ‘simulation’? • Richard’s dismay about his sovereignty ~ power, speech, physical presence, his standing for England (an issue of political representation) • Lévi-Strauss’s self-conscious reflection back upon himself, the ‘intertextuality’ of TT • Crito - a conversation in a prison cell? • the acute observation in the Pillow Book, the lists, the artifice, and their relation to genres of diary and poetry - hardly representational in a naturalistic sense

  4. some related themes • interesting feature of these works is their recursivity • the mirrors of reflection, representation, of ‘reality’ and its representation • the language of Richard • the simulated worlds of Sims • the philosophy of forms of Plato • the ethnographic other in Lévi-Strauss • the urbane commentary of Sei Shonagon

  5. bodies in place - materiality and immateriality

  6. self and context - questions of identity

  7. the search for some inner core of essential identity always becomes a matter of relationship and location/context • dispersed • distributed • dislocated • bodies • this is the natural • state of • being

  8. working out (mediating) some familiar dualities • mind and body • character and props • self and other • individual and society • individual powers and social rules • reality and representation • mediation - not so much overcoming these as realizing them as processes

  9. there is only ever re-presentation • telling stories about selves • simulating and modeling • living up to ideals • sifting out the ‘essential’ (in others, in oneself, in events, in scenarios) • what, after all, is the original behind and before the representation? • Socrates answer - a Platonic form?

  10. re-presentation is always material

  11. medium as mode of engagement • breaking down these common notions of medium (movie, TV, book, theater) • it is not so much whether something is movie, drama, manuscript, video, lithograph … • but how it engages • intimately one person as they walk the streets • a large group as they sit in a darkened room • a crowd in a public square • a family in a home • a child in a bedroom

  12. located bodies are always (re)mediated and (re)mediating bodies • think of • chains of translation • dynamic states • rather than internally consistent and static forms • as mind becomes body and body mind • self becomes other • character becomes its material props, and vice versa • agent becomes social role, and vice versa

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