Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality.
Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality.
In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information.
With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.
作者简介
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David Parisi is associate professor of emerging media at the College of Charleston.
目录
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Contents
Preface. Interrupting the Networked Body
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Haptic Interfaces and the Quest to Reinscribe Tactility
Interface 1. The Electrotactile Machine
Interface 2. The Haptic
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Contents
Preface. Interrupting the Networked Body
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Haptic Interfaces and the Quest to Reinscribe Tactility
Interface 1. The Electrotactile Machine
Interface 2. The Haptic
Interface 3. The Tongue of the Skin
Interface 4. Human–Machine Tactile Communication
Interface 5. The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch
Coda. Haptics and the Reordering of the Mediated Sensorium
Notes
Index
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原文摘录
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A technologized tactility promises to be therapeutic, ameliorating the immense stresses image and sound media have placed on the sensorium. Further, the logic of analog medialization makes a naked and not uncontroversial declaration that touch can be virtualized, countering the common claims that touch, as John Durham Peters puts it, “defies inscription” and “remains stubbornly wed to the proximate.”66 (查看原文)
0 有用 FoundObject 2020-11-15 03:49:41
The most jargony writer I have ever read.
0 有用 felsina 2025-04-04 17:09:53 意大利
更多是媒介研究和STS领域上一个十年的学术资源内循环，有有用的信息，但没有多大的启发性。