Saturday, May 15, 2010


A theatre is supposedly build to exclude the outside reality and allow actors to build their own. If that is so, we are starting to deal with a new trans modern Broadway while the Cloud represents the backdrop of our digital narrations. 

The amount of available information increases exponentially. The fertile relationship between the human and the network conditions the metabolism of the Cloud, which expands with the proliferation of online engagement and its subsequent need for computational power. The Cloud praxis both captures and processes forces and energies, facilitating interrelations, multiple connections and assemblages, while also setting the framework for the recomposition of bodily materiality in codified sequences of zeroes and ones.

Its core is ripe with data about everything and nothing, information exploited by systems that will reach unprecedented degrees of intimacy and intrusion.

And while data actively shapes our perception of the world and our socio-political understandings with it, I foreshadow an actual segmentation of the self. The proliferating connectedness of our society locates the self within spheres of distribution, dividing it into multiple streams, affording the individual the freedom to aggregate and disaggregate according to personal whims, trajectories, thoughts, and itches. And as reality will become exhausted, the User (and not the individual anymore!!!) will be the protagonist of the events and histories of the new global village under the Cloud. 



1 comment:

  1. Nectroposting again in here
    This feels quite outdated right now,
    What the "Author" didn't consider here is the actual proliferation of clouds, we might as well call it a full fledged-fucking Storm by now.
    The "global village" you mention is rather a conglomeration of cities by now, most of the time they are even overlapped, just to make thing easier for us to understand. I guess.
    For every platform contains an abstraction of self, I'm a citizen of a plethora of polis, yet they still call us "Digital Nomads" whatever that means.
    It's feudalism all over again, but this time you can have the illusion of democracy and "choose" your Lords. ah, right, almost forgot. Unlike feudalism you are owned by more than one Lord at the time, pretty convenient, uh?

    -erumel

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