media

	argument - located bodies are always mediated and mediating bodies
	mediation - a process of negotiating, communicating, translating, representing

media?

	conventional understanding -
	writing, printing, painting, photography, TV, video, film
	the systems of production that accompany these

media - a question of representation?

	what is being represented in our five works?
	the Sims Œsimulation¹?
	Richard¹s dismay about his sovereignty ~ power, speech, physical presence, his standing for England (an issue of political representation)
	Lévi-Strauss¹s self-conscious reflection back upon himself, the Œintertextuality¹ of TT
	Crito - a conversation in a prison cell?
	the acute observation in the Pillow Book, the lists, the artifice, and their relation to genres of diary and poetry - hardly representational in a naturalistic sense

some related themes

	interesting feature of these works is their recursivity
	the mirrors of reflection, representation, of Œreality¹ and its representation
	the language of Richard
	the simulated worlds of Sims
	the philosophy of forms of Plato
	the ethnographic other in Lévi-Strauss
	the urbane commentary of Sei Shonagon

bodies in place - materiality and immateriality

self and context - questions of identity

the search for some inner core of essential identity always  becomes a matter of relationship and location/context

	dispersed
	distributed
	dislocated
	bodies
	this is the natural
	state of
	being

working out (mediating) some familiar dualities

	mind and body
	character and props
	self and other
	individual and society
	individual powers and social rules
	reality and representation
	mediation - not so much overcoming these as realizing them as processes

there is only ever re-presentation

	telling stories about selves
	simulating and modeling
	living up to ideals
	sifting out the Œessential¹ (in others, in oneself, in events, in scenarios)
	what, after all, is the original behind and before the representation?
	Socrates answer - a Platonic form?

re-presentation is always material

medium as mode of engagement

	breaking down these common notions of medium (movie, TV, book, theater)
	it is not so much whether something is movie, drama, manuscript, video, lithograph Š
	but how it engages
	intimately one person as they walk the streets
	a large group as they sit in a darkened room
	a crowd in a public square
	a family in a home
	a child in a bedroom

located bodies are always (re)mediated and (re)mediating bodies

	think of
	chains of translation
	dynamic states
	rather than internally consistent and static forms
	as mind becomes body and body mind
	self becomes other
	character becomes its material props, and vice versa
	agent becomes social role, and vice versa

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