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The Internet and the Changing Aesthetics of Living

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Hyper-Mobile Connectivity

Hyper-Mobile Connectivity

Below, Eilif Verney-Elliott argues for a psychoanalytical-philosophical examination of the ‘nebulous circuit board of capitalism,’ a system where all of us are implicated or, at the least very least in relation to. The ‘nebulous circuit board’ includes everything from Voyager I and II space crafts to ‘smart’ phones and the way people interact (sometimes compulsively) within- against- toward- all varied typologies of human-computer fusions and fissures. This video is the introduction to the beginning of a book by Eilif about ‘internetivity’ and being(s) in the world. Internetivity produces theoretical conceptions that turn everything ‘flat’ like a screen (Levi Bryant’s “Flat Ontology”) or into ‘objects’ whereby a mobile phone, an ant and a baboon are equal to their innermost being or ontologically equal (Graham Harman’s “Object-Oriented Ontology”). Harman is particularly addicted to the internet; posting his frustrations about being without wifi and posting nine, twelve etc blog pieces a day. He, like Levi and others, are ‘screened’ – they are to use Herbert Marcuse’s term, entirely, ‘One-dimensional’ but many of us are implicated in this as they are simply a sociological outgrowth into philosophy of their symptoms and the symptoms of the nebulous circuit board that envelopes everyone from the Wall Street banker to a hermit in a cave. 



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