Expanded Senses - Neue Sinnlichkeit und Sinnesarbeit in der Spätmoderne. New Conceptions of the Sensual, Sensorial and the Work of the Senses in Late Modernity

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.

Bernd Kracke lehrt als Professor für Elektronische Medien an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main. Er ist seit 2006 Präsident der HfG und seit 2012 Leiter der B3 Biennale des Bewegten Bildes Frankfurt Rhein/Main. Marc Ries (Dr. phil.) lehrt Theorie der Medien an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main.