"The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality – corporeal, material nature. ... 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 reactions from all the senses in the human body. ... Thus, by turning art into a reality that can be technically manipulated in order to elicit reactions from senses in t...

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