"in terms of the senses, what has reflexivity, once staged and mediatized in the form of estranged thought and roughened perception, become in the new regime of the abstract touch—the pinch, the click, the tap, the slide, and the finger swipe, all characteristic of digital technologies? has not the speed and smoothness, the so-called flow, of the microcomputer, so ostentatiously always already reflexive in its basic modes of operation, paradoxically reintroduced a sense of illusionism and automatism, exactly the kind of sensation that the earlier generations of media theorists such as brecht and benjamin were keen on dispelling?"

rey chow, “when reflexivity becomes porn,” in entanglements, or transmedial thinking about capture