Der Körper auf Tauchstation

How can the human body be integrated into a technological loop? Is it enough to measure this body? Where does the measurable body end and where does the subjective realm of a sentient body begin? This book focuses less on the distinction between measurable (Körper) and sentient bodies (Leib). Instead, it describes processes in which these distinctions become the construct of media-intensive practices of knowledge. At the centre of these practices is the concept of immersion—the plunging of bodies into technological environments. Using case studies from the train ride, cockpit design and experiments in virtual reality, this book shows how new knowledge of humans is generated through the correlations between human bodies and technological environments. Assembling knowledge from fields like the history of the body in the 20th century, the history of technology, media history and media theory, it addresses the central question of the ‘immersed body’ in terms of our subjectivity in digitalised environments.