The Body as a Reality in the Sign System of Screen Culture and Sexuality as its Ideology

Hanna Chmil
Institute for cultural research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.
ORCID 0000-0001-6569-1066

Nadiia Korablova
V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv.
ORCID 0000-0001-7520-8701

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-17-2020-1.19-44

Keywords: corporeality, screen body, sign system of the screen culture, post-body, sexuality.

Abstract. The topic of corporeality is due to research in the field of modern philosophy (phenomenology, existentialism), in which the concept of body is a meaning-generating category since it occupies a place in space, indicates the presence of a person in the world and determines the intentional acts of one’s consciousness, focus on the world. Second but no less important factor is stating of our post-bodily future, its connection with the fact of the disappearance of the human body and the need to fight for human physicality with artificial bodies, an analysis of the consequences that the loss of the human body will have for a man and humanity, which can lead to the complete loss of connection with reality. The indicated problem fields interest authors of this study from the perspective of their representation in the on-screen culture, in which the onscreen body as a reference is a reality and performs an ideological function demonstrating and stimulating the production of role models desirable for the culture. The image, presented on the screen, provides the viewer (in the case of their psychological matching) self-identification and, hence, the presence in the reality in the sense that its uncertainty causes its absence.

Authors Biography.

Hanna Chmil, Director of the Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Full Member of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Kyiv.

gannachmil@gmail.com

Nadiia Korablova, Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy named after Professor J. B. Schad, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Kharkiv.

nskorabljova@ukr.net

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Published: March 10, 2020.

Vol 17 No 1 (2020).

Section: THEORY AND HISTORY OF CULTURE.