There’s no ‘I’ in information

Some naysayings for new media studies

Bibliographic Data

ID12654972
AuthorsTrey Conatser (Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume12
Issue3
Pages365-378
Publication date2009-11-24
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444809342695
OpenAlexW2149580027
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

The proliferation of empirical inquiries into concepts such as ‘interactivity’ and ‘virtual reality’ has been at the expense of the theoretical (or metadiscursive) in new media studies. The greatest consequence of empiricism’s inductive hierarchies is an ontological negation of the body, the subject in corporeal space. Far from producing a ‘new’ subjectivity, such a negation only reifies a subject’s disembodiment and wholly abstracts the space around them. Examining the writings of many critics and theorists, most significantly Mark Hansen and the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, this argument shows that the theoretical must first and foremost be held accountable to itself if the ‘new’ is to be realized. The stakes in this piece are the subject’s embodiment and very ability to articulate itself as ‘I’ in an information-saturated age that challenges the distinction between virtuality and corporeality, a challenge that conceptually bankrupts acts of distinction and differentiation

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Empiricism · Epistemology · Interactivity · Linguistics · Multimedia · Negation · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Virtuality (gaming · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Artificial Intelligence

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