... – corporeal, material nature. Aesthetics is born as a discourse of the body. It is a form of cognition, achieved through taste, touch, hearing, seeing, smell – the whole corporeal sensorium" (Buck-Morss 6). In the 21st century, the development and proliferation of video games has shown the world how pixelated, simulative art can be made into a reality, a phantasmagoria of sorts, by invoking ... phantasmagoria" in a "permanent invitation to intoxication"", video games block out reality and destroy the human being's power to respond to external stimuli in the real world (Buck-Morss 24...

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