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- Title
Distance and Presence in Analogue and Digital Epistolary Networks.
- Authors
Ross, Anthony
- Abstract
This paper considers the particular ways in which the familiar letter (for thousands of years the predominant means of communicating over distance) and twenty-first century technologies like the Internet differingly shaped and shape our experience of distance and presence. It follows Heidegger, Dreyfus, and Borgmann in critiquing the kinds of experience and action the Internet makes possible, and--by way of Benjamin's concept of "aura"--argues that while mediated communication over distance might have never been easier, faster, or cheaper, this increase in our effective power comes at the cost of a diminution of the affective power of the messages carried.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of technology; INFORMATION &; communication technologies; ONTOLOGY; TELEPRESENCE; TWENTY-first century
- Publication
Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0161-7249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/techne201317211