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Hansen's body-centered media philosophy challenges, but lacks application

In an ambitious undertaking, Hansen attempts to create a philosophical basis for understanding new media, and although he seems to fall slightly short of the mark, he does succeed in presenting a rich and innovative aesthetic—a sensory-based phenomenology—for rethinking communication technologies in the 21st century. Central to Hansen’s discussion is the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson (1911), who characterized the external world as a universal flux of images. Privileged among these images is the body, which “acts as a filter creatively selecting facets of the images from the universal flux according to its own capacities” (p. xx). Although not citing him directly, Hansen’s arguments call to mind Marshall McLuhan’s contention that media fundamentally change human sensory ratios (McLuhan & Fiore, 1968; McLuhan, 1967). Citing Bergson, Hansen presents the body as