줄기감각 (Stem Sense)

초록

Tactile sensation is as other four senses : visual, auditory, olfactory,gustatory, delivered by contact. Tactile sensation is also the most fundamental sense, in the most general sense. In this respect the author claims that tactility is the 'stem sense'. By the same token, Hansen proclaims that all the senses are haptic from the viewpoint of the French philosopher Merlow-Ponty's lived body or his account of affective body,the body of affect. The concept of 'haptics' can be found in the traditional Confucian study of mind and heart in East Asia. Sensation itself is the bodily mind and heart, which stand at the center of the value of life. This can be explained in our own language as "broken heart, cold mind." Mind and heart are considered as the most basic bodily senses of the human body. Similarly, the mind and heart are included in the six senses in Buddhism. It is not conceivable to think about a human being without tactility. One can survive without hearing, sight, or even both. This allows us to expand the concept of haptics into the personhood dimension. The author claims that haptics comprise the unique characteristics of personhood in this information technology era. Also, it may be possible to understand the communication between the species once the research can uncover the secret of this bodily stem sense.The revolution of the digital era brings with it the issue of rethinking the traditional oculo-centric paradigm in media. New digital media of human-machine interaction must undergo by rigorous ethical examination. Haptic media allows the world new capabilities of tele-communicatively keeping in touch with others. The transition from the world of art via virtuality to the haptic world has led the bodily materiality in such a way that it is reconstituted in interpersonal, social,political, and ethical dimensions of time and place. Now the skin transcends its biological concept of surface; it is the interface between the senses and it is the interface where the subject and the object become one. The skin of the affective body with the reality of phenomenological materialism is therefore the interface of ethics and the place where the ethical subject emerges. The true relation between persons is the true dialogical relationship by Marin Buber. This true relationship can be extended into the dimension of nonverbal, haptic or even to the dimension of stem sense. The body of affect, the lived body, or the bodily mind and heart is the window to the world. In this haptic era, the interpersonal lies relationship lies where the stem senses are interfaced.

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