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The Spiral of Self-Enabling Action
A Phenomenology of Sense and Contexts in an Aesthetic Virtual Reality
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What happens when almost nothing in your surroundings makes sense yet? Martin Pleiß enters the abstract virtual art-world of William Latham’s Mutator VR: Vortex – and discovers how people nevertheless orient, act, and find footholds in environments of thin context. Rather than through mental work and method, sense-making here becomes existential and spirals outward: each reach, gesture, and moment of curiosity expands what can be perceived and how we matter. The volume connects Merleau-Ponty, 4E cognition, and immersive art into a gripping picture of how embodied agency turns the unfamiliar into the livable.
Martin Pleiß, born in 1987, works at the intersection of phenomenological research and digital projects in academia and art. The philosopher and media scholar completed his dissertation at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, investigating novelty in aesthetic virtual reality. He holds a Master’s degree in European Media Studies from Universität Potsdam and studied philosophy, arts and media at Universität Hildesheim. He has exhibited and collaborated on immersive and VR artworks as both an artist and a researcher, and has worked on sensor-based art and body-swap experiments in virtual environments. His research focuses on perception, especially sense-making, as well as on media systems and contemporary cultural theories—with particular interest in artistic research and the politics of aesthetics.
- ISBN-13
- 9783837685725
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
- transcript
- Publication date
- 29 January 2027
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 300
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English
