Quand une nouvelle technique se diffuse massivement, de nouveaux imaginaires viennent transformer les représentations du corps. Avec l’informatique, c’est la machine à calcul qui sert de modèle organisateur. Mais quand la machine commence à communiquer, elle place le cerveau au centre de notre imaginaire corporel.

Facing a screen and caught in the flows: Towards a history of the physical body in technological culture. <I>An interview with Georges Vigarello</I>
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Whenever a novel technique is massively disseminated, the way the physical body is represented undergoes some changes induced by fresh imaging models. With computer technologies, it fell to the calculating machine to become the determinant pattern. But when a machine begins to communicate, then our physical imagination gives pride of place to the brain.
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