Between the living body and the lived body of the video game player.

Abstract

This study seeks for an aesthetic and esthesiological of the player subject body of video games. For this purpose, it is based on emersiological theory suggested by philosopher Bernard Andrieu (2014, 2016), in subjectivation and empathy theory proposed by Serge Tisseron (2013) as well as on theories about Virtualization of Pierre Lévy (1995) and Gilles Deleuze (1996). Emersiology emerges as a new field of philosophy, mainly connected to studies of the body and its aesthetic manifestations of movement, such as dance, among others. lt seeks to understand the discontinuity between the so-called “living body” and “lived body”, taking a starting point from the argument of delay of 450 milliseconds (ms) existing between the work of the brain and the nerve transmission to consciousness, the living body's perception capacity. In other words, the lived body is always lagging in face of the living body. Lived body is the one embodied with senses and meanings, the body constructed socioculturally, which endorses a history, a meaning of conscious and unconscious movement. lt would be the motricity, Virtuality (in potentiality). The Living body, on the other hand, can be interpreted as the current body, which performs its driving action at this precise moment. It would be the mobility of current time of its performance and updating (result of potentiality).