'The Only Noble Things in Life'
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Sense Organs, Phenomenology of Perception, Media, DevicesAbstract
In Livro do Desassossego (The Book of Disquiet) we can read that "Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. The other senses are plebeian and carnal." What happens if in our approach to Pessoa we read this affirmation straightforwardly, replacing the visible with the optic and the auditory with the acoustic? In other words, what if we read Pessoa's subject not just as a body-without-organs constantly producing sensations, but instead as a non-body that requires media (and artifacts) as a prerequisite for its exteriorization?
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