Does Social Media Have Limits?
Bodies of Light & the Desire for Omnipresence
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Why is it not enough to be in the offline ordinariness of the here and now? Starting from the premise that there is something in the current practices of mediation that escapes the market co-opting of subjecti...
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What is the relationship between the crescent desire to meditate and the expansion modes of the biological substratum? Based on such inquiry, this chapter will study meditation as a second anthropotechnical me...
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This last chapter summarizes the four chapters before into a final end. Instead of “Conclusion,” it is called “Limits” since it points out the boundaries that our current desire for omnipresence is crossing no...
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How does our desire for mediation provide clues about the modes of expansion of the biological substratum? By facing such question, this chapter will start the journey toward mediation as an anthropotechnic. I...
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However, when mediation becomes an addiction, and meditation, an obsession, the desire to unlimitedly expand our biological substrate can easily be distorted into desire for omnipresence: a deep subconscious d...
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This chapter sets the scene for this edited book. Collectively we are presented with a gathering of thinkers and practitioners all working with unique understandings of the body, embodiment and transformative ...
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Starting from the Flusserian premise that every language existentially articulates what is taken for reality, we will seek throughout this chapter to make a phenomenology of grace from the lexicon ‘graça’ as i...