The Persistence of the Human: Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, cartea 48
Autor Matthew Escobaren Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2016
Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative’s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the “meta-body,” a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts – something which, in today’s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential.
We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004323629
ISBN-10: 9004323627
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
ISBN-10: 9004323627
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Cuprins
Introduction
1 The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality
Humanism
Human Freedom
What Makes One Human?
Consciousness
Daniel Dennett on Consciousness: The Human as Virtual Machine
Temporality, Consciousness and Ethics
Immersion and Framing: The Experience of Film and Literature
Embodied Drafts
2 Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness
Trauma and the Temporality of the Self
Memento
The Spectral Past Self
Memory, Identity and Ethics
Rendering Pain Visible in Memento
3 The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body
Meta-body
The Body Artist
Projecting the Self into a Different Emptiness
Erasing the Self
You are Made out of Time
Recovering the Self
The Bird and the Strand of Hair
Sous le sable
Water
Time Lets Fall Its Drop
Meta-body in Sous le sable
Naissance des fantômes
4 Survival: Human and Posthuman
The Temporality of the Paralyzed Body
Starting with “I”
Correcting the Past
Destroying the Self to Save It
Posthuman Consciousness
Parfit on Transpersonal Survival
Postpersonal Identity
The Absent Machine
The Machine Speaks
Involuntary Immortality
The Recuperative Project
Self-possession
Conclusion
Pain and the Clean Slate
The Other Penetrating / Occupying the Self
Bibliography
Index
1 The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality
Humanism
Human Freedom
What Makes One Human?
Consciousness
Daniel Dennett on Consciousness: The Human as Virtual Machine
Temporality, Consciousness and Ethics
Immersion and Framing: The Experience of Film and Literature
Embodied Drafts
2 Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness
Trauma and the Temporality of the Self
Memento
The Spectral Past Self
Memory, Identity and Ethics
Rendering Pain Visible in Memento
3 The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body
Meta-body
The Body Artist
Projecting the Self into a Different Emptiness
Erasing the Self
You are Made out of Time
Recovering the Self
The Bird and the Strand of Hair
Sous le sable
Water
Time Lets Fall Its Drop
Meta-body in Sous le sable
Naissance des fantômes
4 Survival: Human and Posthuman
The Temporality of the Paralyzed Body
Starting with “I”
Correcting the Past
Destroying the Self to Save It
Posthuman Consciousness
Parfit on Transpersonal Survival
Postpersonal Identity
The Absent Machine
The Machine Speaks
Involuntary Immortality
The Recuperative Project
Self-possession
Conclusion
Pain and the Clean Slate
The Other Penetrating / Occupying the Self
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Matthew Escobar, Ph.D. Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Seton Hall University.