Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres
Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent…
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Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres
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. 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. 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.
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-). This book argues otherwise. In exploring haptic perception in the works of Bataille, Blanchot and Serres,