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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'

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The Concept of the Flesh and Self-Touching in the Film

The philosopher Melu Ponce explores the concept of the flesh, which involves the inseparability of perception and the body/nSelf-touching is an example of crossing the boundary between subject and object/nIn the film, 'Max Ren' experiences this boundary crossing when a gun comes out of the TV screen and shoots him/nMelu Ponce suggests that reality is made of something called the flesh/nThroughout the film, inanimate objects become enfleshed

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