Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.07.001
Dennis Yi Tenen
The study of authorship faces a wilderness of extant forms, alive and open to interpretation. The first of these—anonymous—takes us into the vast archive of texts absent the author function. It includes the myriad of faceless, unsigned texts and those signed by masked authors, whose very function is to remove authorial identity from consideration. The second—collective—contains texts produced in collaboration, across time and space. More than a person, the author in that sense comprises a system, which embodies social and technological components. Against this archive, the presence of a single named author seems to be an anomaly rather than the default it often feigns in literary history.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.004
Maicol Borghetti, Antonino Bove
{"title":"“Digital bodies: Exploring the human future between art and technology -A world without human creativity?”","authors":"Maicol Borghetti, Antonino Bove","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.001
Nicola Liberati, Stelarc
Interview with Stelarc on digital intimacy.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.05.001
Susi Ferrarello
This article explores the challenges faced by women in maintaining intimacy before and after pregnancy, including Female Sexual Dysfunction (FMA), Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD), and psycho-physical issues during the fourth trimester. A comprehensive overview is provided on how both direct and indirect technology can either facilitate or hinder the recovery of intimacy in this context. Specifically, the role of ultrasound technology is examined, highlighting its positive impact on FMA while acknowledging its potential negative effects when technicians lack training in perinatal mental health. The potential of Mobile Health (Mhealth) and its tools, such as wearables, econsultations, and Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET), in reaching women in underserved areas is discussed. However, concerns are raised regarding the risk of poor quality information dissemination and the potential for self-medicating attempts or inadequate preventive care associated with these technologies. Additionally, the significance of phone apps and online forums in women's lives is reviewed, with cautionary notes regarding the lack of information concerning the healing process of the fourth trimester, the risk of data breaches, and the dissemination of low-quality information. This analysis underscores the importance of considering the potential benefits and risks of technology in supporting women's intimate health before and after pregnancy.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.003
Jan Gresil S. Kahambing , Virgilio A. Rivas
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The literary presence of Klara is designed to infract a conventional social space (dominated by humans), technically eroding the human/non-human and nature/culture duality. Such erosion implies a transgression, portrayed in posthuman studies as a transcendence of the human and in ecofeminist studies as a deconstruction of the often-oppressive essentialist relationships of women and the environment. Transgression is the boundary-crossing mediation among actants. The novel permits us to see multivalent frames, each thematizing a posthuman future in terms of gender differences, the posthuman/human intricate gravitation towards loneliness, and, most of all, love. Through the examination of this work, an interrogation of the technological trajectory of the near future also suggests repositioning the role of posthumans concerning their environments.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.002
Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino
As a medium literature has always been characterized by a strong virtual dimension: the capacity to evoke alternative worlds, an imaginary universe which may clash with the real one, or even deconstruct the opposition between real and fictional. Postmodern fiction has stressed and expanded the inter-medial aspect of literature, showing a true obsession with visual media and extra-literary codes. Sometimes it goes well beyond infinite, playful rewriting and becomes a true inter-medial phenomenon, a significant synergy between media and the arts, strongly linked to narrative strategies and symbolic values, as in the so-called maximalist novel. The digital revolution has already changed, and is still changing, the classical notions of author, text, public and intellectual property. Instead of defending the purity of a lost tradition, literature must now face the complex and multisensory logic of contemporary mediality, based on acceleration, simultaneity, and hyper-mediation. If literature is comparable to a medium, then, according to Derrida, the postmodern tendency to narrate the de-centration of the book might allow us to consider it as technology. Starting from this premise, the paper will endeavor to illustrate how the material supports of literature, i.e. the book and the printed page, are technological forms involved in a continuous process of computerization. We shall be analyzing The GRAMMATRON and Remix the Book, two projects by Mark Amerika, using examples showing how inter-mediality becomes a theoretical concept to express the complexity of aesthetical experiences in contemporary media contents.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.001
Nicola Liberati
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.09.001
Roberto Paolo Malaspina
This paper focuses on the perceptual, social and aesthetic dynamics at work when interacting with immersive pornographic products. The main aim of this analysis is to demonstrate that immersion in a 360° iconic environment promotes a double quasi-inter-subjective movement: that with the solid bodies and identities reproduced in the iconic space, and that with the wearable machine. The interaction of these two elements promotes a peculiar somatechnical relationship with the apparatus and the audiovisual, in line with the carnal qualities of the pornographic product from its origins. After a brief genealogy of this erotic liaison, this contribution analyses the main features of the contemporary conformation of pornography in Virtual Reality, showing how the material device in the pornographic experience is understood as a quasi-subjectivity that shares in the erotic charge of the product. Through its ergonomic conformation, VR porn promotes unprecedented forms of identity experimentation, which also heighten the medium's value in socio-political terms.
Finally, with the concept of the videal body, it is proposed to consider the erotic relationship between human beings and optical media along a vector that, instead of anthropomorphising the machine, mechanicalises the human being, deriving erotic pleasure from the surrender to the an-icon and the apparatus of vision.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.002
Kai-man KWAN
The coming of sex robots has generated a lot of discussions. The scholarly debate on love & sex with sexbots has been ignited mostly by David Levy's book in 2007, Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. Levy is an enthusiastic advocate for sex with sexbot, but his positive assessment of sexbots is contradicted by severe criticisms of the use of sexbots, most of which come from the radical feminists like Kathleen Richardson but other critics provide a personalist critique of Levy. In this essay, I will explore this personalist critique in some details. I will also engage with Levy's detailed arguments, & put these discussions within the context of contemporary philosophy of sex.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.05.002
Maurizio Balistreri
The article explores the role of virtual reality technologies and sex robots in addressing the sexual needs of astronauts engaged in space missions. The positive impacts of sexual activity on physical and psychological health are highlighted, as well as the challenges astronauts will face in space due to the limited opportunity for emotional relationships. The need to develop innovative solutions, such as sex robots and the use of virtual reality to meet these needs, is analysed. The potential benefits and challenges of using virtual reality in space are compared with those of sex robots. We conclude by emphasising the importance of carefully considering astronauts' preferences and the operational context so as to determine the most appropriate technology to support their sexual needs in space.
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