[Nettime-bold] living in mediaspace route 66

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

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living in mediaspace route 66


We already have a good perspective on the twentieth century. It was a cen-
tury of mechanized iron, of massive wars resulting from global imperiali-
sms. It was a century of burgeoning electrical, then electronic, communi-
cations, a century of entertainments and the fragmenting of grand narra-
tives - national and otherwise. It was a century of amazing scientific
progress, and the exploration of the farthest reaches of the earth. It was
a century of terrorisms and bombs, the century in which the population
crises and world-wide pollution appeared catastrophic for the first time

In mediaspace route 66 we are living tenth-alive tenth-virtual tenth-ava-
tar tenth-prosthetic tenth-bot tenth-inert tenth-transmitter tenth-recei-
ver tenth-sexual tenth-dead in eighth-inert eighth-physical eighth-real
eighth-abstracted eighth-virtual eighth-affective eighth-subaltern eighth-
imaginary space; in mediaspace route 66 we are living among worlds, within
worlds, in-between worlds, beneath worlds, above worlds, outside worlds;
in mediaspace route 66 we are traveling and remaining still; in mediaspace
route 66 we are through the wires and the wires through; in mediaspace
route 66 we are on the screen and in the screen and beyond the screen and
before the screen; in mediaspace route 66 we are within the hearing of the
same and the other, within the scent and touch of the same and the other,
within the sight and the sound of the same and the other, within the taste
of the same and the other; in mediaspace route 66 we are the virtual of
the other and the other of the virtual and we are the real of the other
and the other of the real; in mediaspace route 66 we are the virtual of
the real and the real of the other; in mediaspace route 66; in mediaspace
route 66

It was a century in which we began to grasp the foundations of physical
reality and the foundations of biological existence, and it was a century
of knots and the problematizing of closed classical systems of logics,
mathematics, and everything else. It was a century in which the idea of
space and lived and inhabited space became worrisome. It was a century of
images, the imaginary, and anguish


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