Obviously, the pandemic has changed our relationship to both public space and the internet. This helps bring into focus how the internet had already changed our relationship to space. As Drew Austin argues here, “the perceptual logic of the internet has always been a nonspatial, atemporal universe in which everything feels always already available for instrumental use.” It was offered as a screen-based alternative to physical space that appeared amenable to individual, unilateral control.
Lead and Felt
Lead and Felt
Lead and Felt
Obviously, the pandemic has changed our relationship to both public space and the internet. This helps bring into focus how the internet had already changed our relationship to space. As Drew Austin argues here, “the perceptual logic of the internet has always been a nonspatial, atemporal universe in which everything feels always already available for instrumental use.” It was offered as a screen-based alternative to physical space that appeared amenable to individual, unilateral control.