DOI: 10.5176/2382-5650_CCS17.36
Authors: Dr. Johannes Kandler
Abstract:
The following considerations were published for the first time in the Journal of Law and Social Sciences.[1] Concerning old and new media – the question is: How then could power and rule or their enforcement be described in times of printing or other media such as Facebook or Instagram? Is it not that these media will inevitably lead to the dissolution of the body? For now the body of the prince or the subject at about the year 1500 as well as that of an EU citizen in the 21st century seem to be no longer necessarily tied to physical presence, and first of all this means presence as focussing on the body as its subject. Bavarian printing of the 16th century seems to make it possible, to give an answer. The basic intention of media-communicated political behavior is the re-presence of the human body. Re-Presence itself is tied up to re-updating, re-personalisation, re-localisation and re-dynamisation. Their origin is in the re-materialisation of techno-imaginations, and this is experienced as sheer potentiality.
Keywords: Analysis of power, 16th century Munich, current power structures (21st century), the human body, re-presence, re-materialised techno-imaginations.
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