Thinking Like a Carpet: Embodied Perception and Individuation in Algorithmic Media

Abstract

Keynote talk given at the “Cinema of Sensations” International Conference organized by the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between the 25th and 27th of May, 2012. (The photos of Laura Marks illustrating the article were taken by Dorel Găină, and are reproduced here with the permission of the artist.)

Keywords

• embodied perception
• algorithimic media
• deleuze
• carpet as machinic phylum