Intercorporeality in times of virtual encounters: the notion of the phantom other

BATTÁN HORENSTEIN, ARIELA; COHEN, VERÓNICA; GARAVITO, MARÍA CLARA

Congreso; The Future as a Present Concern; 2021

British Society for Phenomenology

In order to answer the questions about the future concerns and describe the phenomenon of intersubjectivity in a virtual milieu we turn to a set of phenomenological concepts. We are particularly interested in (i) the notion of excorporation (Morris, 2004) to characterize the relation of embodied subjects with the virtual milieu, (ii) the notion of phantom limb (Merleau-Ponty, 2012) to characterize the mode of the other‟s givenness in intersubjective encounters, and finally, (iii) the notion of affectiveresonance (Fuchs, 2020) to account for modes of affective givenness. These notions are closelyrelated and they form a conceptual framework that allows us to elaborate a phenomenologicaldescription of the appearance of what we called a "phantom other" (IRC). This notion was theresult of research carried out last year through a short film.