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Matteo Bergamaschi
The essay offers an analysis of body and body performances in the informatics era, based on the film Her by Spike Jonze (USA, 2013) and according to the philosophical works by Jean-Luc Nancy. In Her, the meaning of body seems paradoxical, because of its absence from the scene and through the use of voice. According to this “phenomenology of voice”, body is interpreted neither as a medium for an ideal meaning nor as an inessential signifier. Indeed, it is presented as the place where sexuality and otherness are linked to the problem of loss, failure and weakness. Thus, the human-informatics hybridization prejudices the properties of uniqueness, irreversibility and responsibility that are intrinsic to human experience in its involvement with body.
