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| Perhaps it is easier to understand, now, why we’re so enthralled by our digital technologies, such that once we’re online and synapsed to the screen, it’s remarkably difficult to tear ourselves away. For all these technologies awaken something primordial in us, a biophilic proclivity layered deep in our genome, a penchant for animate interchange with bodies whose shapes are very different from our own. The renewal of that age-old animistic sense of a world all alive, awake, and aware brings an upwelling of wonder, or at least an anticipation of a wondrous possibility waiting just around the corner. | Perhaps it is easier to understand, now, why we’re so enthralled by our digital technologies, such that once we’re online and synapsed to the screen, it’s remarkably difficult to tear ourselves away. For all these technologies awaken something primordial in us, a biophilic proclivity layered deep in our genome, a penchant for animate interchange with bodies whose shapes are very different from our own. The renewal of that age-old animistic sense of a world all alive, awake, and aware brings an upwelling of wonder, or at least an anticipation of a wondrous possibility waiting just around the corner. |
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| -David Abram | —David Abram |
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| Attunement is the feeling of an object's power over me—I am being dragged by its tractor beam into its orbit. | Attunement is the feeling of an object's power over me—I am being dragged by its tractor beam into its orbit. |
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| -Tim Morton | —Tim Morton |
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| —Christian & Griffiths | —Christian & Griffiths |
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| | The response to technology in this period thus confounded familiar oppositions: fetishism and scientific truth; magic and mechanisation' charisma and instrumental rationality. Walter Benjamin's discussion of “the aura” of a work of art offers insight to such doublings. In “The World fo Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” he spoke of the aura as a “nearness in a distance,” explaining the concept with reference to a poem of Novalis that described a landscape that seemed to look back at a human spectator. For Benjamin, such an encounter was the paradigmatic experience of aura: “the transposition of a response common in human relationships to the relationship between inanimate or natural object and man. In other words, “To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return." |
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| * Harris, P.A. Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) | * Harris, P.A. Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) |
| * Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy | * Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy |
| | * Lingis, Alphonso. The Imperative |
| * Morton, Tim. Attune | * Morton, Tim. Attune |
| * Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | * Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust |
| * Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet | * Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet |
| | * Tresch, John. Romantic Machine |
| * NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https://www.nist.gov/dads/ | * NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https://www.nist.gov/dads/ |
| * Sonic Acts. Living Earth | * Sonic Acts. Living Earth |
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