Bodily Engagements with Film, Images, and Technology

This book builds a new understanding of the body and its relationship to images and technology, using a framework where novel writings of pragmatist somaesthetics and phenomenology meet new research on bodily reactions.

Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University.

1. Somatic Film: Background, Classification, Education 2. Making It Real: The Need for the Presence of the Body in the Documentation of Contemporary Art 3. Cutting, Mending, Learning 4. Robot Cars 5. Disgust, the Inorganic, and the Enigmatic: The Dank Media Philosophy of Mario Perniola 6. Rasafiction: Can the Oldest Atmosphere Theory in the World Help Us to Understand Today's Somaesthetic Manipulation?