Interpassivity

Interpassivity is a term incorporated by Robert Pfaller and Slavoj Žižek. It combines the words interactivity and passivity and denotes a state of passivity in the presence of the potential of interactivity.[1] Its purpose is to "explain how works of art and media sometimes seem to provide for their own reception".[2]

Pfaller, a professor of philosophy at the university of Linz elaborated the theory of interpassivity within the fields of cultural studies and psychoanalysis.[3] Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén, working on the basis of Pfaller's and Zizek's insights, stress interpassivity's potential of changing "into its negative when illusory interactivity produces passivity".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Slavoj Žižek (1998). "Cyberspace, or, How to Traverse the Fantasy in the Age of the Retreat of the Big Other", Public Culture, volume 10 issue 3, p. 483
  2. ↑ van Oenen, Gijs. "A Machine That Would Go of Itself: Interpassivity and Its Impact on Political Life". Project MUSE. Project MUSE. Retrieved Dec 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ Robert Pfaller, Illusionen der Anderen, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2003
  4. ↑ Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén (2010). Wikiworld, Pluto Press, p. 133

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