Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Mauric... - 9783034317917

Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel SerresAuthor(s): Peter Collier, Crispin Lee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Switzerland\nImprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften\nISBN-13: 9783034317917, 978-3034317917\nSynopsis\nOur sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element of our sensory presence is transmitted elsewhere. It is often claimed that this change in the way we perceive the world and each other is without precedent, and is solely the result of twenty-first-century life and technologies. This book argues otherwise. The author analyses the evolving portrayals of haptic sensations that is, sensations that are at.