The nonsense of the aura

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The nonsense of the aura

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 305 archive
Proceedings of the 4th Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment table of contents

Melbourne, Australia

Article No. 12

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-921166-87-7

Author

Darshana Jayemanne

The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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RMIT University Melbourne, Australia, Australia

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ABSTRACT

An examination of Walter Benjamin's notion of the aura as it appears in videogames, and the relation between the non-directional sense of smell, non-directional visual fields, and the representation or active exclusion of cultural memory.

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	1	Agamben, Giorgio. Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993.
	2	Benjamin, Walter. Selected Writings Vol. 3: 1935--1938. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2002.

INDEX TERMS

General Terms:
Human Factors, Theory

Keywords:
Agamben, Benjamin, affect, aura, memory

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