Focusing on the paradox of embodiment/ disembodiment in virtual space, and on the recent history of Net Art, this article proposes to go back to Roy Ascott’s metaphor of the ‘telematic embrace’ in order to examine different artistic and theoretical approaches to online affectivity. While the first generation of artists who founded the net.art movement was openly fascinated by the novelty of cyberspace as a medium, currently artists are adopting online tools to produce also offline works, revealing the presence of Internet culture in contemporary society instead of focusing on the nature of the medium in itself. In this scenario, marked by the current Post-Internet discourse, real and virtual worlds overlap, and hybrid artistic forms emerge. But are Net artists still reinterpreting the idea of virtual embrace? Or have they moved away from a romantic stance, highlighting the perils of the digital revolution in the so-called Post-Digital age? Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this essay aims to address these questions, exploring the paradox of affectivity in contemporary networked cultures through the analysis of emblematic artworks.

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什么可以感觉到和不能感觉到：后互联网艺术的情感悖论

本文着眼于虚拟空间中体现/体现的悖论，以及网络艺术的最新历史，建议回顾罗伊·阿斯科特（Roy Ascott）对“电热拥抱”的隐喻，以研究在线情感上的不同艺术和理论方法。虽然创建net.art运动的第一代艺术家对网络空间作为一种媒介的新颖性着迷，但目前艺术家们正在使用在线工具来制作离线作品，这揭示了当代社会中互联网文化的存在，而不是专注于媒体本身的性质。在这种情况下，以当前的后互联网言论为标志，现实世界和虚拟世界重叠，并且出现了混合艺术形式。但是网络艺术家是否还在重新诠释虚拟拥抱的想法？还是他们放弃了浪漫的立场，突显了所谓后数字时代的数字革命的危险？本文采用现象学的观点，旨在解决这些问题，通过对标志性艺术品的分析，探索当代网络文化中情感的悖论。