technically (not)together
I find myself immersed in an ever proliferating sea of URLs, TumblrLs, Twitter identities to match with the aforementioned, and meanwhile constantly struggling to keep stored, edited, and backed-up an exponential amount of data that if lost I’ll practically cease to exist.
The ominousness of the digital, Web 2.0, Twitterati, terabyte external hard drive post-, pre-, post-, during, during, pre-, and post-modern society is that we are just mere bits (or bytes is the more appropriate word) of ethereal code—small pieces, loosely joined. Life has become a network of the alone—who make up the joined—downloading, storing, saving, documenting, commenting, “liking,” wishing they had an “unlike” button, status updating, passive-updating to sting an ex-friend, lover, or enemy, finding disgust and pragmatism in click here to cancel relationship .
Cyberspaces and Networkspaces exist both as simultaneity of space, a simultaneity of time. We become both a record of the past, present, and that which is to come, but not always in that order. We are technically together and technically not.
Category: Cybertheory
