Immedialità intra-attiva e intermedialità estetica

Abstract

This article attempts slightly to displace the reference to intermediality by focusing on the problematical ontological and aesthetical status of the media as “intermediary”, i.e. as agents of the “in-between” and of the “among”. It does so by reflecting on the ontological loops of reality formation illustrated by the mass-mediatization of killing sprees, considered here as a strangely rational form of technological delusion. It then ventures into using Karen Barad’s notions of “intra-action” and “agential cut” in order to shed light on the processes through which technological apparatuses of sensoriality (media) produce reality by inter-jecting slices of appearance/relevance among us, human subjects, thus giving perceptible existence to what is at work in-between us. The article concludes with remarks on some of the implications this ontological reflection may bear on aesthetics.

Keywords

• media ontology
• technological delusion
• intra-action