Expanded Senses

This book responds to the 'expansion of the senses' - which is so often mentioned in the context of the new moving images in cinema/TV/online/art - with a cautious double movement. To begin with, it is essential to recognize - through a precise interrogation of the cinema's constitutive, 'cinaesthetic' experience in the perception of film (Vivian Sobchak) - an offer of sensuous (self) blurring and transgression of borders, which is always already inscribed in media. Subsequently, in the interplay of concrete moving images from the production sites of new media - with philosophical, socio-theoretical and neurobiologically motivated theories and models - the transformation of our sensuous and mental capacities through techniques of modulation, simulation, prosthetics, networking and digital cartography are mapped out.