NEW PUBLICATION

HUGO PAQUETE PROJECT PUBLISHED IN TECHNOCULTURE JOURNAL

The project “The Terminal Body”: Connection Network and Aesthetic Obsolescence”, by CIAC researcher Hugo Paquete, co-authored with Ana Santos, was recently published in Technoculture journal (volume 12). It is a multimedia installation that explores anthropological analysis and technocultural that follows the variability of the tangibility of the terminal subject of the body, using David Le Breton in Farewell to the Body (2003).

The urban-corporeal technical-scientific imaginary is explored in complete decay, precariousness and imperfection. The Postflow Kroker (1994) and Interzone (1994) bodies, biomechanical objects at rest, maintain multiple connections in an expanding world in the third millennium. The concepts of obsolescence and accident presented by William Lurtz in the Association for Strategic Accidents of 1990 are discussed; and, in parallel, the ideas of “drug design” and biochemical pharmacology, which allow new schemes of perception about virtual reality.

There is a direct relationship between the expansion of VR technology immersion systems (treated as virology) and the infection of the human senses that generate the secondary effect of the immobilized body. This is the result of a consensual hallucination and desires to escape the body.

Technoculture is an online academic journal that publishes both creative and cultural-critical and creative works that explore the impact of technology on society.