In the history of the spread of Western medicine to the East, the "body" within the core of traditional Chinese medicine culture is projected by medical devices. It is not only an object of experience, but also an object of scientific medicine and an object of media. When it is "grasped" and made “visible,” new audio - visual, sensory, and bodily experiences are "generated". Thus, in the encounter with medicine, the "visibility" brought about by technology quietly throws the body into a kind of media "matryoshka". Does medical knowledge and practice transform and spread from one language to another? Under the analysis of the materiality of communication, both at the discursive and practical levels, what we need is a more flexible, useful, and productive observer to meet the new uses of the body and adapt to the massive proliferation of equally flexible and exchangeable information. The new medicine has brought about the visibility of the body, triggered new forms of domination, and made what Foucault called "technologies of the individual" possible. When technology is projected onto the body, every tremble, shudder, or indifference of the body is clearly visible and should be a monument in the history of media. The discourses of technology, science, and culture penetrate one another. Media and technology not only manifest as providing a device but also refresh our body's perception of the world and space, as well as our experience of the elements that distinguish humans and the body.

Authors:
Zheyang Zeng, Hunan Normal University, China

About the Presenter(s)
Zeng Zheyang is a research - oriented teacher at the School of Journalism and Communication, Hunan Normal University.

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