MUTUAL INCORPORATION, INTERCORPOREALITY, AND THE PROBLEM OF MEDIATING SYSTEMS
MUTUAL INCORPORATION, INTERCORPOREALITY, AND THE PROBLEM OF MEDIATING SYSTEMS
Author(s): Robin L. ZebrowskiSubject(s): Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Health and medicine and law, Phenomenology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Philosophy of Education
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: intercorporeality; participatory sense-making; mediating technologies; presence;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I explore the ways that phenomenological concepts like intercorporeality and mutual incorporation offer new tools in trying to make sense of human experiences via mediating systems. In particular, I think about how the COVID-19 pandemic hastened a large population into mediated interactions, and what is lost, perhaps contingently or perhaps intrinsically, when human experiences are mediated in this way. I look to research in presence, skillful interaction, and enactive social cognition to argue that there remains something ineffable or at least extremely hard to pin down about intercorporeality, and embodied togetherness has not yet been replicated in the mediating systems we currently embrace.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philosophia
- Issue Year: 67/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 25-37
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English