Touchlessness - Architecture - e-flux
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, but what if these stories are too pulpy? The word “dissociation” is increasingly used to describe episodes in which feeling doesn’t feel like feeling, in which it can’t sufficiently get across the effects of personhood on the one hand and reality on the other.
The COVID-19 pandemic has included mass social mobilization toward a mutually-accountable separation from one another. Its bioethics sees each of us as a potentially vulnerable or dangerous vector. This is not wrong, but the wrong lessons might be drawn from this. The epidemiological model of society shows us not as singular and discrete beings, but rather as part of a heaving plurality. (By contrast many digital platforms represent society as only singular and discrete beings, subsequently linked by secondary networks.) Looking toward a post-pandemic politics, the problem of…
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