...mastered one begins to feel through it to the experiential field it discloses.67 As Merleau-Ponty writes: The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for...radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight. <>!t The stick thus enters into focal disappearance, becoming part of the "from" structure of the body.69...

...mastered one begins to feel through it to the experiential field it discloses.67 As Merleau-Ponty writes: The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for...active radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight.68 The stick thus enters into focal disappearance, becoming part of the "from" structure of the...

...technologies. Merleau-Ponty is more precise in his example of the blind man's cane: The blind man's tool has ceased to be an object for him, and is no longer...rather aware of it through the position of objects than the position of objects through it. The position of things is immediately given through the extent...

...simply an object but becomes an extension of body increasing its range. The point of the stick becomes "an area of sensitivity, extending the scope and active...radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight" (Merleau-Ponty, 1962, p. 143).121 To get used to a stick, a feathered hat, a typewriter is to incorporate...

...searchlight and the cinema is reminiscent of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's blind man's stick. Merleau-Ponty says 'The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object...radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight.' 9 Virilio is, of course, correct when he states that there is a history of seeing - but seeing must...

...blind man's stick becomes an extension of body that increases its range. The point of the stick becomes "an area of sensitivity, extending the scope and active...radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight" (Merleau-Ponty, 1962, p. 143). Individuals with motor disabilities can likewise learn to extend their...

...and he remains in a special relation to his stick. "The blind man's stick" — says Merleau-Ponty — "has ceased to be an object for him, and is no longer...objects than of the position of objects through it. The position of things is immediately given through extent of the reach which carries him to it, which...

...within my corporeal schema and thereby become an extension of my body, akin to the blind man's stick: The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for...objects than of the position of objects through it. (Merleau-Ponty 1962:143) None of this is revealed to me if everything runs smoothly. There is no reason...

...restrictive potentialities and immediately appear passable or impassable for my body with its adjuncts. The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for...objects than of the position of objects through it. The position of things is immediately given through the extent of the reach which carries him to it,...

...matter will be clearer with the stick that Merleau-Ponty refers to next. He says, "The blind man 's stick has ceased to be an object for him and is no...radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight" (PhP 167, emphasis added). According to Merleau-Ponty, the stick has ceased to be an object to the...