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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
This is true only because we’ve changed the physics of culture and society towards “information”
When we choose to dematerialize our culture and society to become information bits and clusters. Connected over networks / media rails. We lose the literal “thing-ness” that persists over... See more
Reggie Jamesx.com... See moreWe have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
