COMM 2102 Lecture : COMM jan 23 les 3.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Body : our biological res extensa; heat-seeking skin packages that all living human beings inhabit . Text : whatever detaches the body from its message. In the worldview of textual dominance, the activity of bodies is often presented in extreme terms. Beyond notice on the one hand, pathological on the other. Bodily absence is a virtue, is a central assumption of contemporary communication and greatly influences how we think about and organize social relations. By contrast, text is presumed to have only strong effects. Gesture the set of observable signals that coordinate bodies with one another is our original communication, however we unthinkingly we may dismiss it. The standard historical narrative offers a story of technological and moral advancement that progressively strips bodies from the arenas of important communication and invests all past communication with the dream of bodilessness. Textualization is presented as overcoming the material and moral limitations of the human body.