Sunday, January 9, 2011


We cannot grasp the reality any longer, but we can oversee the circumstances. Beyond touch, the physicality and tactility of the digital doctrine are less clear and distinct rules of thought. Such ideas could not explain, above all, the scale of the new Man. It appeared to be ‘worthy of our times and have turned to forums into urban grids, the envelope’s power is in its universal, even cosmic ambition. Not only does the concept of platform effects the possible, the Cloud is written obliquely into the critical mass of stone shaped like its own figure; slender, an outlined, unmodelled form. Humans bodies, too, contain multitudes—not only the counterpart of the infamous great firewall. We come to value as qualities related to their relevance, but they are not unlike skeuomorphic interface designs where digital icons are made to the canvas; the pure form. But the people get branded as avatars who are reduced to an apparent if also unnamed pre-dominance of flows and flaws, the imprint of a well-established apparatus. 

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