24/04/2026
In a world dominated by representations of the intellect, the bodies receptivity to the earth is neutered. Perhaps the old mantra of the body as a vessel has been reversed and the network itself becomes a vessel for the body. Channelling the bodies passing internal fluxes into discretised blocks of sensation, matched to ontologically distinct, eternal (repeatable) and thus retrievable phenomena. Our technologies watch us and we provide the means for it’s circuitry (which I do not claim is a condemnable act). And unfortunately now this is where ‘unreality’ lives as we colloquially say, “in real life” as a differentiation between technologically mediated life from?
This is not a new revelation, being espoused more thoroughly by thinkers like McLuhan and Baudrillard who theorise the human minds tendency to identify itself in extension through different mediums. I do not reason we ought to return to some romantic status of the body as the site of radical liberation, it is undoubtedly intwined with our digital ontology, it is not purely detached. However, simultaneously this does not deny its positive capacity to influence and explore how humans can participate in our current world. There is no answer to what appears as my critique, for the bodies unknown potential is a predicate in itself that must be accepted. For if the body works differently to the intellect yet is inextricably related to it, theorising or trying to harness the body under some framework is naive and pointless. Rather, this will be a series of fragments meditating on the depreciated value of the different human senses, charting out what is maybe lost through mediation. Our relation to the body is ever more blurred and my issue is it’s unquestioned irrelevancy. There is a lack of practice and theorisation surrounding it’s conditioning by it’s conversion into transparent facts determined and ‘solved’ by objects which pre-exist the bodies expression outside . This leads us to question whether the Western minds wish to marry itself to the world is a force of thought or a wish of the body to find it’s spatialised womb?
A theoretical question here materialised in the objective conditions of a journey which is no longer a journey and therefore carries with it a fundamental rule; aim for the point of no return.
Baudrillard, America
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