INTIMACY OF MUTATION.pdf

The noosphere, a realm of electronically mediated thought, envelops the earth, intertwining with the biosphere. The digital has become integral to human experience, escaping its systemic boundaries and entangling with intimate sensorial experiences. It interfaces with bodies through complex procedures and protocols, including digital infrastructures, aesthetics, and logics that transduce physical space. The digital is rooted in binary signals, translating input into 0s and 1s, and forming techno-social assemblages with human bodies. Aesthetics and artefacts of digital processes shape spatiality and socio-spatial relations, marking circuits of digitality. The digital has become an integral part of the human sensorium, influencing space, time, and everyday life. Technical objects produce spatiotemporal atmospheres, and machine-to-machine interactions create atmospheres beyond human perception. Digital logics structure and re-structure space-time, and discourse promotes and sustains the reach of digital technologies, often reproducing social hierarchies and exclusion. The digital penetrates the human body, affecting the sympathetic nervous system and bodily responses.