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Where is the body going? Beyond the digital being, repeatedly proclaimed now as a spur towards a new dimension technologically extended to man, now as a warning against the dangers of a devastating colonization of the body as ultimate urban territory, what we experiment today is a radically new space-time dimension strongly characterized by the convergence of real time and virtual space. In this context, the perception that our body/being is perennially partaking in an entity which is extended and interconnected through cellular and palm phones, laptops and computers- is one and the same thing as the new spread perception of space as an active field, reactive and sensitive to our presence and to our demand of connectivity. But if this radical change of our spatial and bodily experience was still unconceivable not long ago –after centuries and centuries in which space had been perceived as something neutral , undifferentiated, homogenous and isotropic, and the body as an individual, excluding, independent and unitary entity- the interpretation of the media as tools for the extension of the mind, or of our cognitive capacities, cannot suffice today to explain phenomena that can transform so deeply the basic coordinates of individual and collective life, that is body and space. In this sense, talking of webness implicitly means re-interpreting digital technologies, rather than in a key of extensors, as connectors, creators of the multilateral convergence that sees things come to life, speak and converse. For ourselves, it means to acquire a new expanded dimension that extends beyond the visible boundaries of our bodies and our senses, in mutual compenetration and overlapping of what once used to be specific, non communicating spaces. In other terms, talking of webness means advancing the hypothesis that net technologies - or entering the network - generate such a radical convergence of aspects of reality that were clearly separated before, to cause the rising, if not of a novel nature, at least of a new dimension of time, where space, bodies and things tend to blend into a single entity not abstractedly interrelated but concretely capable of interacting. Marialuisa Palumbo |
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