@medieninitiativ@dwmulvin And we could probably make a further argument that it is through the mirror VRChat players establish a sense of avatar body ownership and make the intercorporeal affectivity among players possible. I hope this makes sense and could be helpful to you.
@medieninitiativ@dwmulvin Players cannot easily know how their avatars are moving by feeling the corporeal body. And, players cannot always be sure what others are doing to their bodies due to the lack of physical touch. The mirror is therefore visually complementing the lack of bodily awareness.
Forget the misleading title and the horrendous anthropomorphic illustration, but this is a rare, fair (and belated) account of what Gaia looks like for the science and politics of life forms: https://t.co/3B1R8vhSed
Here's the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes of researcher Katie Bouman. #EHTBlackHole#BlackHoleDay#BlackHole (v/@dfbarajas)