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The Immaterial as Traversable

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This chapter positions mobile media technologies as what Heidegger referred to as things and argues how only through our interaction with things can meaningful locations emerge within our phenomenological horizon. As things, these specific technologies permit us the ability to gather the immaterial and material together, thus giving new meaning to our understanding of ourselves in-place and our understanding of locations as available for our traversing.

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  1. Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Katowice, Slaskie, Poland

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Battin, J.M. (2017). The Immaterial as Traversable. In: Mobile Media Technologies and Poiēsis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59797-3_4

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