While naked perception involves a direct and unmediated 'human-world' relation, the use of technology extends this intentional relation into a 'human-technology-world' relation (Verbeek, 2005).
Ryder (16) defines activity as 'the engagement of a subject toward a certain goal or objective.' According to him, in nature, an activity is typically unmediated while in most human contexts activities are mediated through the use of culturally established instruments, including language, artefacts, and established procedures.
The use of the spoken language, even though it was formalized, made possible the expression of an unmediated vision that needed no further context; thus, the lyrics are intensely personal and precise.
the lifeworld embraces us as an unmediated certainty, out of whose immediate proximity we live and speak.
Above all, they give us the unmediated voices of their respondents, every hesitation, every blush, every laugh.
But this time I wished she had left us with an unmediated memory of her "Hammerklavier".
The suspicion is a consequence of empiricist uses of the term, in which experience is tied to a 'myth of the given' whereby body and world are offered to us in an unmediated way.
Peter Balakian: But in the end, I guess "we used our hands" became a kind of image of passion and, you know, unmediated love of ingesting this beautiful food and this beautifully prepared vegetable.
A great poem of any age and in whatever style restores the unmediated innocence of experience and sensation, while a dated poem merely reminds one of how innocent one used to be.
"The notion of spontaneous and unmediated expression" of course.
"This is such an unmediated vision of it".
