It slowly creeps in

We dictate what the places around us mean by turning them into our own places and creating specialised networks. We trade power around to achieve our ends and attach meaning to the world around us by creating meaning to the things and words we use.
This blog has been transformed from a blank space into a tool for the dissemination of my thoughts. I used the knowledge I’ve learned about a social network to exercise power through that very dissemination of learned knowledge. I’ve also selected my words in order to shape and convey all of that to suit the message I wanted to portray.

so how does all of this intersect?  I would say that it’s in the way it all intermingles into a new world, this new world we call, online.

If in the idea of post-humanism it suggests that the technology we use can become an extension of ourselves then can the digital world that we create and use become not only an extension of us but also become a sort of pseudo-world; a cyborg world (McNeill, 2012). It’s a world that takes in our analogue thoughts and churns out a cyber translation within its own borders, its own virtual space (Kuttainen, 2017). Most of us are never more than a pockets reach away from this somewhat transitory world that is the new cyber platform. Even with this ease of access we exhibit, this new frontier still inhabits a transitory place in our lives as even if we access it habitually it’s still a temporary part of our daily experience, at least for the moment.  

I suppose building off that and relating back to concepts of post-humanism, where does our analogue world end and our digital one begin, at what point do we become so ensconced with the digital that it all blurs and fade into one. So when does what we now conceive as our normal world, what I’ve called the analogue, get engulfed to the point where they both merge together to become the new standard where if you don’t partake in digital practices you become a new form of societal fringe dweller.

it doesn’t just stop with the fact the our lives are tied in with social media and the web but everything we do is coming to be dictated by some form of technology and not  just our phones, computers etc. if we were to try and completely extricate ourselves from everything we use it would be near impossible, we’ve become cyborgs attached to some form of technology with everything our watches in order to tell the time and the vehicles we all use at some point.

Refernces

Kuttainen, V. (2017). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, lecture week 6: Networked Narratives, retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

Lynch, M (2016), Leave my iPhone alone: why our smartphones are extensions of ourselves, retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/iphone-apple-privacy-smartphones-extension-of-ourselves

McNeill, L. (2012). There Is No “I” in Network: Social Networking Sites and Posthuman Auto/Biography. Project Muse, 35(1), 65-82. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

videohive, Word Map, retrieved from https://videohive.net/item/digital-cyber-world-04/19338271