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In digital practices, instrumentation is mutually implicated with the body in an epistemological sense. The body adapts and extends itself through external instruments. To have experience, to get used to an instrument, is to incorporate that instrument into the body. The experience of the corporal schema is not fixed or delimited but extendable to the various tools and technologies which may be embodied. Our bodies are always open to and intertwined with the world. Instruments appropriated by embodied experience become part of that altered body experience in the world. In this way, ‘the body is our general medium for having a world’ (ibid.: 146).
To be a body is to be tied to a certain world.
(Merleau-Ponty, 1962: 148)
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Broadhurst, S. (2009). Digital Practices: New Writings of the Body. In: Broadhurst, S., Machon, J. (eds) Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248533_2
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