2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on the discourses of visual and haptic perception and interface of the media

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520201
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Principal Investigator	YAMAGUCI Hiroyuki Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 教授 (40244628)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	知覚 / 視覚 / 触覚 / メディア / メディア論 / ベンヤミン / マクルーハン / ハイパーテクスト
Research Abstract	This study gives at first an overview about the discourses of the perceptions which have been formed in the modern European thought above all with the key concepts of the "visual" and "tactile" perception. In this tradition, visual perception relates basically to the knowledge given by reason, whereas the tactile perception has been sometimes connected with the original experience of the world, as it were, in the unity of all senses. For media theorists in the 20^<th> century as Walter Benjamin or Marshall McLuhan, the tactile perception can moreover be connected with virtual perception given by the new technical media. Applying this contemplation to the present conception of the hypertext as a model, hypertext in the broader sense can be understood in the context of the discourses of the tactile perception.