Mark BN Hansen

Mark Boris Nikola Hansen (born August 2, 1965 ) is an American literary scholar and media theorist .

Life

Mark Hansen studied French and Comparative Literature from 1985 to 1991 at New York University with guest stays at the University of Paris-Nanterre , then at the University of California at Irvine and as a visiting student at the University of Konstanz . In 1994 he received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Irvine, with a thesis on "Embodying Technesis. Technology beyond Writing".

From 1994 to 2008 he taught at Southwest Texas State University , Princeton University and the University of Chicago .

He is currently Professor of Literature and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina .

Mark BN Hansen is not identical to the video artist and mathematician Mark Hansen.

Scientific work

In his first book “Embodying Technesis. Technology beyond Writing ”, Hansen examines the theoretical handling of technology among influential cultural philosophers of the twentieth century, namely Martin Heidegger , Jacques Derrida , Sigmund Freud , Jacques Lacan , Michel Foucault , Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari . He notes a theoretical trend towards reducing the phenomenon of technology to the concept of the machine. As a result, however, technology is ultimately misinterpreted as being essentially “discursive” and its material effectiveness and momentum are underestimated. He calls this reductive strategy - in analogy to Alice Jardine's concept of gynesis - as technesis , or as "putting-into-discourse of technology". With recourse to Walter Benjamin and with the help of neuroscientific theses, Hansen, on the other hand, strives to develop a theory that can do justice to the cultural impact of technology in its physical presence.

This project will be expanded in “New Philosophy for New Media” with a view to digital media. With reference to the philosophy of Henri Bergson , to the neuroscientific concept of embodiment and to the cybernetics revision by Donald MacGrimmon MacKay and Raymond Ruyer , he tries to redefine the relationship between man and technical medium in the digital age. The digital image is no longer to be understood as an independent object, but only as a process that requires both an interface and an embodied recipient. Accordingly, he rejects the thesis of a “disembodiment” triggered by the digital media revolution. Rather, by means of digital media, the affective-physical "underside" of every act of perception would only be accessible to experience, which should be seen as an active expansion of the affective potential of the human body. The art of new media, u. a. in Jeffrey Shaw , Robert Lazzarini and Bill Viola , Hansen analyzes in detail as a test field for such an affective-physical expansion of the recipient.

In “Bodies in Code” Hansen extends this perspective with reference to the phenomenology of the body by Maurice Merleau-Ponty .

Hansen is currently turning to the relationship between time awareness and the media, both with reference to Edmund Husserl and Alfred North Whitehead , as well as - after a longer stay in China - from an intercultural perspective.

criticism

The media scientist Marie-Luise Angerer criticizes Hansen's “New Philosophy for New Media” based on the discourse analysis by Michel Foucault . The media-induced modification of the affective body is by no means to be understood as a liberation, but as a symptom of a change in the ruling dispositive of power. In the meantime, this begins less with the subject's desire than with the affect of the organism.

Awards

In 2008 he received the Ars Electronica Book Prize for his book “Bodies in Code. Interfaces in Digital Media ”.

Publications (selection)

• Mark BN Hansen: Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. Science and Literature Series, University of Michigan, 2000.
• Mark BN Hansen: New Philosophy for New Media. MIT, 2004.
• Mark Hansen / Bruce Clarke: Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory. Duke University Press, 2005.
• Mark BN Hansen / Taylor Carman: The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Mark BN Hansen: Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media. Routledge, 2006.
• Mark BN Hansen: Feed Forward: On the Future of 21st Century Media: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://philosophyafternature.org/mark-bn-hansen/
3. ↑ Mark BN Hansen: Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. Science and Literature Series, University of Michigan, 2000.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Mark BN Hansen: Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. Science and Literature Series, University of Michigan, 2000, p. 4.
7. ↑ Mark BN Hansen: Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. Science and Literature Series, University of Michigan, 2000.
8. ^ Mark BN Hansen: New Philosophy for New Media. MIT, 2004.
9. ^ Mark BN Hansen: Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media. Routledge, 2006.
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Marie-Luise Angerer: On Desire for Affect. Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes, 2007.
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