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The speed of present digital telecommunications renders instantaneous transfer of information, collapsing the interval of perceived time/space. If the interval becomes thin and turns into mere interface, things and objects perceived also become thin and lose their physicality. This same technology enables a simulcast of multiple events, creating a plurality of positions from which to ephemerally view the world. With events not organized according to unified/linear time, the resultant fissures and folds of this new reality can be profoundly dislocating. Given such post-structural precepts, how can one refocus/reposition oneself in a physical urban environment? It may be possible to juxtapose flow and continuity against such discrete disruptions of time and space. |
Our
own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the
visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains
it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
-Maurice
Merleau-Ponty,
The
Phenomenology of Perception
h y p o T H E S I S In an age of increasing dematerialization and alienation from one's relationship with the physical environment, a restoration of body ritual is necessary. If it is the body that ultimately defines its surrounding space, perhaps an extended, spatial interface can be created such that a refined control of human perception would actually help it to refocus on the awareness of the body and of the body's environment. 1 . 2 |
