“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.” ― William Gibson, Zero History <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/10567916> Don Dulchinos 303 909 4598 www.neurosphere.org [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondulchinos/
> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:47:31 -0500 > From: Brian Holmes <[email protected]> > To: "<nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets" > <[email protected]> > Cc: Oliver Gassner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: <nettime> Swipe, a Smart Phone Movie by Mieke > Gerritzen/Next Nature > Message-ID: > <canuitgz-xsw_+rhx707esr+cazhkukbij5d-pf+wyn0xjpy...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello Oliver, > > Nothing is natural in our culture, for sure - I too paused to question that > sentence. > > However the immense changes that this small bit of artificiality has > brought, over a mere 20 years, to our individual and collective > orientations toward the world, really merit a pause for reflection. > > I was interested to look further into what is sometimes called the second > nature of technology, but damn, the app failed on my Android phone! > Probably because I haven't updated it in a long time... > > Best, Brian > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 10:45 Oliver Gassner via nettime-l < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Geert, >> >>> "The average person unlocks their phones 150 times a day, how natural is >> that? " >> >> I am not sure, this questions makes sense at all. >> a) Regarding the fact a smartphone replaces, I don't know, 20 other >> ',machines or media' it might very well make sense >> b) IN the sense that neither books, radios, script, papyrus or print are >> "natural", of COURSE it is not "natural". (but: cultural) >> >> I am not a media theoretician, just some guy who got a (literature and >> linguistics) MA early in the 90ies ;) >> >> Of course looking at the smartphone as a 'cultural carrier' makes sense. >> >> I nowadays usually say: >> "We will all nostalgically look back at the times when people were "still >> staring at their phones" instead of interacting with invisible people on >> their semitransparent glasses." >> >> But this was just a note about the word 'natural': Nothing in our culture >> is. >> >> >> >> Am Fr., 12. Apr. 2024 um 14:36 Uhr schrieb Geert Lovink via nettime-l < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> Swipe, a Smart Phone Movie by Mieke Gerritzen/Next Nature >>> Download the app on your phone: https://nextnature.net/projects/swipe >>> >>> Ever left your phone at home by mistake and felt like you are missing a >>> limb? Turns out, a lot of us feel that way. We need to talk about >>> smartphones. SWIPE is a movie about your phone, on your phone. >>> >>> Research shows that people who are separated from their smartphones can >>> suffer from strong mental effects, and this all happened in less than >>> twenty years. We need to talk about smartphones. >>> >>> The average person unlocks their phones 150 times a day, how natural is >>> that? On a global scale, more than 5 bilion people have access to a >> mobile >>> phone connection, and over half of these are smartphones. And let?s face >>> it: these numbers continue to grow. We are now living in a world where >> more >>> people have access to mobile phones than clean toilets. This fact is >>> equally alarming as significant. It?s a sign of our times. We are living >> in >>> the Phone Age. >>> -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
