“Touch is not peripheral to human existence, it is essential to it... touch is the meaning of being human” (38). When touching stops, its “as if the skin of the other had in fact been torn off.”
-Dworkin, Intercourse.
Tactile communication reveals something particularly essential about the other; something that the visual, verbal, and olfactive cannot hope to achieve; and it is something indispensable for sexual interaction.The significance of coitus is in the truths revealed through the seemingly simple act of organ interaction.
If an infant is not touched in an incubator, it will die.
Holding hands, high fives, hand shaking, hugs and kisses, these social norms are not just mere formalities; they are products of something far deeper to the idea of humanity. The nature of human being would be unrecognizable without touch.
So what can we say about the solitary arts of reading and writing?
Something which the electronic universe has certainly expanded on.
A loss of humanity or a sign of something post-human?
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Sunday, 26 June 2011
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