The Body and the Crisis of Experience - (Re)Sizing Meaning and Presence in Mediated Communicative Practices

Abstract

How could one qualify lived experiences and perceptions of reality? Among the various spatio-temporal historical variations (BARBOSA, 2012; KOSELLECK, 2006) that constitute the cultural transformations of experiences, perceptions and actions that govern our present time, as well as projecting expectations as to the coming into being of culture and society, this research aims to reflect on the construction of the sensibility from the perspective of the oscillations of the experience of the real to a possible qualification of the senses. In order to do so, it is assumed that contemporary man is affected by a “crisis of experience” (BENJAMIN, 1975) that redirects the dimension of meaning and presence (GUMBRECHT, 2010, 2015) in the mediated communicative practices (HEPP; HASEBRINK, 2015), culminating in the ways of (in)tangentiating reality, (re)configuring cultural and social mediations.