Stiegler, Heidegger and…the Wii
From ‘The Nintendo Wii, Virtualisation and Gestural Analogics‘, by Patrick Crogan, on the latest issue of Culture Machine.
I am not completely convinced by the ‘Wii as enframing tool’ argument, but the article is highly enjoyable, as I find any discussion of ‘worlding the virtual’ extremely interesting.
Fabio Cunctator
Heidegger would have puked.
Actually, I dont agree.
I think he would have found all sorts of ‘virtual’ technologies extremely interesting. What kind of tool is the Wiimote? Is it a tool in our human world which does its tooling in a virtual one? When in a carpentery game you use it as a hammer, are you transparently coping with it as a hammer or not? Does this involve a new kind of being? (The wiimote present-at-hand as a white plastic object, ready-to-hand as a controller, and what-to-hand as a hammer?) Does it replicate the ‘as’ structure on a virtual level?
I think it is perfectly legitimate to use Heidegger to answer Wii questions.