Thanks, Jack, for your thoughtful reply; I really appreciate your eloquence, humility, and clarity. Also, I’ve noticed numerous ppl on the internet are expressing similar ideas but have yet to figure out how to bring that energy together.
Thanks, Jack, for your thoughtful reply; I really appreciate your eloquence, humility, and clarity. Also, I’ve noticed numerous ppl on the internet are expressing similar ideas but have yet to figure out how to bring that energy together.
Siham- I think we are all caught in a performative contradiction, i.e., we are trying find a way to come together via a medium that intrinsically prevents it. For example, I am in the US and have a beloved friend in England. We can talk via video chat--which I am grateful we can do. But the experience is simultaneously one of being very close...and yet we are still some 5,000 miles distant from each other. It is a form of radical dislocation.
Or more simply: if this can be solved at all it will not be solved on the internet. At some point we need to step outside of it and build something in the real world.
Thank you for your comment and for your kind words. -Jack
Very true. And it’s hard to bring those distance-relations together, although some of them I value greatly and have helped me in practical real-world ways. But there comes a point when the distance is truly a felt thing, the zoom meetings aren’t doing what needs to be done but it’s all we have. It’s a kind of poverty that’s all the worse for being undefinable.
Thanks, Jack, for your thoughtful reply; I really appreciate your eloquence, humility, and clarity. Also, I’ve noticed numerous ppl on the internet are expressing similar ideas but have yet to figure out how to bring that energy together.
Siham- I think we are all caught in a performative contradiction, i.e., we are trying find a way to come together via a medium that intrinsically prevents it. For example, I am in the US and have a beloved friend in England. We can talk via video chat--which I am grateful we can do. But the experience is simultaneously one of being very close...and yet we are still some 5,000 miles distant from each other. It is a form of radical dislocation.
Or more simply: if this can be solved at all it will not be solved on the internet. At some point we need to step outside of it and build something in the real world.
Thank you for your comment and for your kind words. -Jack
Very true. And it’s hard to bring those distance-relations together, although some of them I value greatly and have helped me in practical real-world ways. But there comes a point when the distance is truly a felt thing, the zoom meetings aren’t doing what needs to be done but it’s all we have. It’s a kind of poverty that’s all the worse for being undefinable.