Modern architecture and prehistory: Retracing<i>The Eternal Present</i>(Sigfried Giedion and André Leroi-Gourhan)

Papapetros, Spyros

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“…Giedion, too, was convinced that photography played an important if not decisive role here. Like Moholy, he supposed that such photographic records would be able to aid in developing a new culture of touch and materiality; for that reason, they could also aid in fostering a new, haptically-oriented conception of prehistoric art (see also Geiser, 2010: 147; Papapetros, 2013: 178).…”

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Surface Media: McLuhan, the Bauhaus and the Tactile Values of TV

Schmidgen

2021

Body & Society

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Marshall McLuhan understood television (TV) as a tactile medium. This understanding implied what Bruno Latour might call a ‘symmetrical’ conception of tactility. According to McLuhan, not only human actors are endowed with the sense of touch. In addition, TV, digital computers and other ‘electric media’ use light beams and similar scanning techniques for ceaselessly ‘caressing the contours’ of their surroundings. This notion of tactility was crucially shaped by the holistic aesthetics of the early Bauhaus. To get at the specific features of the TV image, McLuhan relied on the writings of László Moholy-Nagy and Sigfried Giedion, in particular their use of photography for capturing and highlighting the ‘texture’ of surfaces. However, he hardly reflected the social and political factors that, in the age of electric media, contribute to the ‘symmetricization’ of touch.

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“… 9. On photography as an important contribution to the Bauhaus culture of touch, see also Geiser (2010), Papapetros (2013) and Smith (2006). …”

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