Mimetic communication
As communication perceived through traditional understanding of it is some ways both copied and changed in Dis-armor, the project also serves as mimesis for communication. Mimesis is a way to understand something through means of its likeness. Thus, Dis-Armor project brings in conscious understanding of direct and indirect communication and its meaning. Taussig argues that through mimesis “…contact and copy merge to become virtually identical, different moments of one process of sensing...”(Taussig 21) The same way communication with the use of Dis-Armor erases traditional perception of communication and the line of distinction between direct and indirect communication. Usually conversation of people face to face would be considered to be clearly direct communication while talking through the use of computer or telephone would be indirect. Dis-Armor challenges this notion. It lies in the realm of mimetic communication and blurs the line between the two, “plunging us
into the plane where the object world and the visual copy merge.” (Taussig 35) The object in this case would be communication. It remains the same communication as interlocutor talks to the person, yet it also employs the machine as intermediary mean, thus making communication indirect. Thus, through its mimetic faculty it returns to the questions of simultaneous presence and absence of the Dis-Armor user at the time of communication with the interlocutor.
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