{"title":"We Are Ant-Man: The Digital Body in a Superhero Comedy","authors":"Scott Bukatman","doi":"10.1353/cj.2023.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Phenomenologist Don Ihde posits a technological knowledge rooted in embodied experience via technologically enhanced perceptions. Super-heroes might be understood as embodied technologies and enhanced perceptions. Digital technologies are normally less visually accessible than those of the Industrial Age, but the cinematic superheroes of the twenty-first century are highly visible digital effects that might tell us something about the status of the body in digital culture. A digital superhero comedy, Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018) models one kind of human-digital relation: the hapless Ant-Man knows nothing about how his advanced technologies actually work, but his cluelessness has no bearing upon his ability to use them and effect positive change.","PeriodicalId":55936,"journal":{"name":"JCMS-Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JCMS-Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2023.0002","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:Phenomenologist Don Ihde posits a technological knowledge rooted in embodied experience via technologically enhanced perceptions. Super-heroes might be understood as embodied technologies and enhanced perceptions. Digital technologies are normally less visually accessible than those of the Industrial Age, but the cinematic superheroes of the twenty-first century are highly visible digital effects that might tell us something about the status of the body in digital culture. A digital superhero comedy, Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018) models one kind of human-digital relation: the hapless Ant-Man knows nothing about how his advanced technologies actually work, but his cluelessness has no bearing upon his ability to use them and effect positive change.
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